John Keats quotes

“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 not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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

— 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

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

— John Keats

“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