“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Source: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”
Source: The Complete Poems
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Stanza 2
Poems (1820), Ode on a Grecian Urn
Variant: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
Source: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
Context: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
Context: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
" Ode http://www.bartleby.com/126/44.html", The Fair Maid of the Inn <br class="br">Poems (1820)
“The poetry of earth is never dead.”
" Sonnet. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket http://www.bartleby.com/126/28.html" <br class="br">Poems (1817)
Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced”
Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 14-May 3, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)
Variant: Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
“Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.”
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 14 - May 3, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory — and very few eyes can see the mystery of life — a life like the Scriptures, figurative... Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative. Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.