Find important quotes and citations by the author John Keats.
Quote 2746
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sectMore quotes on the topics: dreams paradise risk causes passion conviction overacting
Quote 2745
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourseMore quotes on the topics: progress changes habit taste invention fashion society
Quote 2744
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of manMore quotes on the topics: mind mankind development nature
Quote 2743
Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleepMore quotes on the topics: aversion mortality death pressure
Quote 2742
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishnessMore quotes on the topics: imaginations childhood health soul character uncertainty ambition sentimentality
Quote 2741
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other bodyMore quotes on the topics: individualism changes self-development
Quote 2740
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either partyMore quotes on the topics: opinion mind quarrel discussion understanding conduct
Quote 2739
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select partyMore quotes on the topics: intelligence mind wisdom interest thoughts knowledge
Quote 2738
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independenceMore quotes on the topics: risk independence publicity love liberty aversion admiration
Quote 2737
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finerMore quotes on the topics: nature mankind preference
Quote 2736
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom, one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wiseMore quotes on the topics: pride character vanity wisdom hate
Quote 2735
Health is my expected heavenMore quotes on the topics: health heaven desires satisfaction
Quote 2734
Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.More quotes on the topics: ability mystery doubt facts reason uncertainty
Quote 2733
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great objectMore quotes on the topics: failure hell disappointment problems weakness
Quote 2732
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subjectQuote 2731
I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must beMore quotes on the topics: reason reality realization ability truth
Quote 2730
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrelMore quotes on the topics: quarrel consideration publicity problems bashfulness
Quote 2729
Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?More quotes on the topics: mankind humanity world possession
Quote 2728
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.More quotes on the topics: uncertainty heart truth imaginations
Quote 2727
The poetry of the earth is never deadQuote 2726
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at allQuote 2725
I wish to beleave in immortality, I wish to live with you forever.Quote 2724
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunkQuote 2723
The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostilityQuote 2722
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children