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

- John Keats

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

- John Keats

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

- John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

- John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

- John Keats

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

- John Keats

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

- John Keats

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

- 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.

- John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

- John Keats

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

- John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

- John Keats

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 works.

- John Keats

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

- John Keats

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

- John Keats

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

- John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

- John Keats

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

- John Keats

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

- John Keats

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

- John Keats