Quotes by John Keats

Life is but a day; a fragile dew-drop on its perilous way from a tree's summit.

They sway'd about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

"The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and the superstitious is a 'vale of tears' from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary interposition of God and taken to Heaven--What a little circumscribe[d] straightened notion! Call the world if you Please "The Vale of Soul-making". Then you will find out the use of this world...

I love you the more that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affection and the truth of Imagination--What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth--whether it existed before or not.

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

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it”

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. . . .

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination.