O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...

Quote by John Keats

Topics: Age Quotes

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered...

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered...

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high...

Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer...

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer...

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is...

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is...

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection his...

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection his...