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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 childrenQuote 2721
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon meMore quotes on the topics: opportunity experience inexperience chance lifetime secret learning
Quote 2720
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this worldMore quotes on the topics: soul world fitness self-development
Quote 2719
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.More quotes on the topics: publicity admiration aversion
Quote 2718
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbishMore quotes on the topics: character mankind uniqueness rarity
Quote 2717
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembranceMore quotes on the topics: art surprise thoughts memory appearance uniqueness
Quote 2716
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.More quotes on the topics: imaginations truth
Quote 2715
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporateMore quotes on the topics: perfection art success
Quote 2714
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.Quote 2713
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out someMore quotes on the topics: experience discouragement failure self-development success discovery truth opportunity
Quote 2712
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingnessMore quotes on the topics: beauty admiration joy increase
Quote 2711
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.More quotes on the topics: love character individualism soul
Quote 2710
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own worksMore quotes on the topics: praise blame beauty imaginations critism self-knowledge
Quote 2709
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatestMore quotes on the topics: success failure effort recognition diligence
Quote 2708
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?More quotes on the topics: desires admiration individualism community personality
Quote 2707
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated itMore quotes on the topics: experience perfection imperfection fortune reality lifetime
Quote 2706
He ne'er is crowned with immortality who fears to follow where airy voices lead.More quotes on the topics: fear eternity heaven acceptance
Quote 2705
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not knowMore quotes on the topics: satisfaction leisure nature music enjoyment pleasure
Quote 2704
Beauty is truth, and truth is beautyMore quotes on the topics: dependence beauty truth
Quote 2703
I am fit for nothing but literatureQuote 2702
Philosophy will clip an angel's wingsQuote 2701
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mysteryMore quotes on the topics: intelligence knowledge education mind help pressure
Quote 2700
“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.More quotes on the topics: luxury admiration love beauty death secret
Quote 2699
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monkMore quotes on the topics: imaginations invention mind
Quote 2698
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only musicMore quotes on the topics: music changes progress world lifetime
Quote 1401
Love is my religion - I could die for itQuote 1199
The poetry of the earth is never deadQuote 1126
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experiencedMore quotes on the topics: improvement experience reality
Quote 797
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest