Prof.(Dr.) Asghar Ali Ansari School of Languages,

Literature & Society,

Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India

John Keats was one of the best and famous Romantic poets of the second generation of the Romantic period. He was the contemporary of other famous poets Lord Byron and P.B.Shelley. In his short life, John Keats wrote many famous poems about everything from art to season to melancholy to sleep and much more. He died of tuberculosis only at the age of twenty-five. In his lifetime, the critics did not pay attention to his work and neglected his poetry. It was only after his death that his poetry attracted the attention of the readers as well as the critics and his poetry became famous and Keats was considered as one of the greatest poets of the English language. His popularity has earned him a momentous reputation in the English language making him an important figure for Jaipur National University, Jaipur where English literature and language are skillfully taught.

John Keats was a sensuous poet. In his poetry, he uses all the five senses. His poems appeal to our senses of eye, ear, smell, touch, and taste. In his poems, we find pictorial and musical qualities that appeal to our eyes, ears, and other senses. His odes are famous for sensuousness. In this blog, we will explore some of his memorable quotes from his poems which have become famous forever.

Keats’ Memorable Quotes:

• A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
• The scenery is fine- but human nature is finer.
• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
• The poetry of earth is never dead.
• Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain.
• Now a soft kiss-Aye, by that kiss,I vow an endless bliss.
• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
• Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
• Touch has a memory.
• Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.
• I want a brighter word than bright.
• My love is selfish, I cannot breathe without you.
• Love is my religion- I could die for it.
• I have so much of you in my heart.
• If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
• The excellence of every art is its intensity.

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