{"id":4021,"date":"2022-03-02T18:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2022-03-02T18:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T18:46:51","slug":"john-keats-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/keats\/john-keats-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"John Keats Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Keats was one of the key poets of the English Romantic movement<\/a>. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Tennyson<\/a> has been notable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats’s poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Keats’s letters, which expound on his aesthetic theory of “negative capability”, are among the most celebrated by any writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are some famous quotes from John Keats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Letters of <\/a>John<\/a> Keats<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA thing of beauty is a joy forever.\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Endymion<\/a>: A Poetic Romance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeauty is truth, truth beauty,\u2014that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Ode on a Grecian Urn <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have clung
To nothing, lov\u2019d a nothing, nothing seen
Or felt but a great dream!\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Endymion: A Poetic Romance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is there in thee, Moon! That thou should’st move my heart so potently?\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Endymion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Letters of John Keats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cO for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Letters of John Keats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHeard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Ode On A Grecian Urn <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity…\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Ode On A Grecian Urn <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.\u201d
\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Love Letter to Fanny Brawne<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The great beauty of Poetry is, that it makes every thing every place interesting – “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2015 John Keats, <\/strong>Letter to his brother George, 1819<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Keats was one of the key poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Tennyson has been notable. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats’s poetry, including a series of odes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}