John Keats1795–1821The quotations of
John Keats
English Romantic poet
1795–1821
29 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Poetry and Nature.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In contextLove in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.Poems (1820), “Lamia”, Pt. II, l. 1- Epitaph for himself (1821)
- Poems (1820), “Fancy”, l. 1
- Poems (1817)
- Endymion (1818), Bk. I, l. 705In context
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
Endymion (1818), PrefaceWas it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?Ode to a Nightingale, Stanza 8In contextHe ne’er is crown’d
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead.Endymion (1818), Bk. II, l. 211In context- Poems (1817)
- Endymion (1818), Bk. I, l. 453In context
- Poems (1817)
- To Fanny Brawne (March 1820)
- To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
- To Richard Woodhouse (27 October 1818)
