There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats
Many have original minds who do not think it -- they are led away by custom.
John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats
Life Quotes
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss
John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
John Keats
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.