47 quotes
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
on Philosophy
"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all."
on Art
"Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases it will never Pass into nothingness."
"O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take."
on Imagination
"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
on Love
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."
"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
"Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it"
on Life
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter"
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
"Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer"
on Nature
"Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits."
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"To SorrowI bade good morrow,And thought to leave her far away behind;But cheerly, cheerly,She loves me dearly;She is so constant to me, and so kind."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
"Beauty is truth truth beauty."
