Quotes By John Keats

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 subject.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

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.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.