Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. John Keats More Quotes by John Keats More Quotes From John Keats 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 some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. John Keats failureerrorscheer A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats beautifulbeautylife Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! John Keats flowersleepdeath 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 inspirationalsciencemean Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering. John Keats another-lifesufferingdream To silence gossip, don't repeat it. John Keats repeatsgossipsilence I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever John Keats starslovenight If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, John Keats learningtreeinspirational Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it John Keats experiencereallife Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats realpositivehappiness I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats truthinspirationallying I want a brighter word than bright John Keats bright-starbrighterwant You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. John Keats kissingmovementbest-friend You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. John Keats teenage-lovekissinglasts My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. John Keats breatheselfishlove-is Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live. John Keats shouldblessing My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats atheismimaginationliterature My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses John Keats bodymindrooms O let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me, may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne. John Keats breathingeyewatches Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit. John Keats life-istreeway
