“Do you not see, how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? ... Call the world if you Please ‘The vale of Soul-making.’ ”

~ John Keats #BOTD 1795

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

"Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego"
~ John Keats

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience...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

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
~ John Keats

"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

"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

"Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more - O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core."
~ John Keats

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

"To silence gossip, don't repeat it."
~ John Keats

"My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you."
~ John Keats

"Wherein lies happiness?
In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine,
A fellowship with essence; till we shine,
Full alchemiz’d, and free of space.
Behold The clear religion of heaven!"
~ John Keats

"To stay youthful, stay useful."
~ John Keats

"You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest."
~ John Keats

"Everything that reminds me of her
goes through me like a spear."
~ John Keats

"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

"If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
then it better not come at all."
~ John Keats

"I have so much of you in my heart."
~ John Keats

"Life is but a day;
A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way
From a tree's summit."
~ John Keats

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
- that is all
Ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know."
~ John Keats

"A hope beyond the shadow of a dream."
~ John Keats

"Now a soft kiss
- Aye, by that kiss,
I vow an endless bliss."
~ John Keats

"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
~ John Keats

"I want a brighter word than bright"
~ John Keats

John Keats (1795 – 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the 2nd generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and PB Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only 4 years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.

Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, Keats had become one of the most beloved of all English poets.

He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats' work was a great experience that he felt all of his life.

Today Keats’ poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analysed in English literature. Some of his most acclaimed works are "Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry", and the famous sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".