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

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

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

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

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

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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

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

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

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

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 wise.
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

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats