Quotes by John Keats

3 quotes by John Keats (died 1821), taken from 3 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.

Works quoted: Endymion, “To Autumn” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.

Endymion

  1. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

“To Autumn”

  1. “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run.”

“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

  1. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

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