John Keats Quotes (250 quotes)
![]() | “She dwells with Beauty—Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu.” ―John Keats Source/Notes: Ode on Melancholy l. 21 (1820) |
![]() | “"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” ―John Keats Source/Notes: The Complete Works of John Keats, Volume 2, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1818, p. 105, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
![]() | “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” ―John Keats Source/Notes: Endymion (1818), Book I |
![]() | “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 Source/Notes: The Complete Works of John Keats (1820 edition) |
![]() | “Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.” ―John Keats Source/Notes: Sleep and Poetry, st. 5 - Poems (1817) |
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John Keats

Born: October 31, 1795
Died: February 23, 1821 (aged 25)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet
Bio: John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.
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