John Keats Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Mean, Science

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

  John Keats

  Imagination, Atheism, Literature

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.883, e-artnow

• Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Truth, Philosophy

  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)

• 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.

  John Keats

  Writing, Poetry, Soul

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 224

• it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

  John Keats

  Mean, Men, Doubt

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 Dec. 1817

• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

  John Keats

  Failure, Literature, Fierce

  Endymion preface (1818)

• 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.

  John Keats

  Two, Luxury, Literature

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 133

• 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 remembrance.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Reading Poetry, Remembrance

  Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238

• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

  John Keats

  Art, Excellence, Literature

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

• 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 rubbish.

  John Keats

  Nature, Fire, Heroism

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

• Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

  John Keats

  Philosophy, Angel, Wings

  'Lamia' (1820) pt. 2, l. 229

• It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

  John Keats

  Men, Atheism, Literature

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.647, Delphi Classics

• The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

  John Keats

  Feelings, Enemy, Literature

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.47, Рипол Классик

• 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 quarrel.

  John Keats

  Hate, Men, Grace

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.760, e-artnow

• A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

  John Keats

  Poetry, Identity, Literature

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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