Quotes by John Keats

“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it's to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.”

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

“A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”

“Love is my religion — I could die for that.”