Inspirational Quotes by John Keats

All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

— John Keats

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

— John Keats

Load every rift with ore.

— John Keats

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

— John Keats

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

— John Keats

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

— John Keats

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

— John Keats

Asleep in lap of legends old.

— John Keats

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

— John Keats

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel

— John Keats

She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around...

— John Keats

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

— John Keats

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

— John Keats

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

— John Keats

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after…

— John Keats

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought…

— John Keats

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

— John Keats

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and…

— John Keats

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

— John Keats

My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

— John Keats

That which is creative must create itself.

— John Keats

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

— John Keats

The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.

— John Keats

Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.

— John Keats

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success...

— John Keats

“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”

— John Keats

Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

— John Keats

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

— John Keats

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

— John Keats

You are always new to me.

— John Keats

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

— John Keats

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

— John Keats

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

— John Keats

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

— John Keats

If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

— John Keats

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

— John Keats

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

— John Keats

“What is this world's delight, Lightening that mocks the night, Brief as even as bright”

— John Keats