John Keats Quotes About Nature

Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818), Book I, line 1, Project Gutenberg #24280, reproducing the Taylor and Hessey 1818 text. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” opens the poem’s mythic Romantic meditation on beauty; the statement remains a poetic proposition rather than empirical evidence that every aesthetic experience produces permanent happiness.

“Ode on Melancholy,” in Keats: Poems Published in 1820; Project Gutenberg #23684. This is Romantic poetic imagery and not mental-health treatment advice.

On the Grasshopper and Cricket, opening line.

On the Grasshopper and Cricket, final line; the cricket continues the earth’s poetry in winter.

“To Autumn,” in Keats: Poems Published in 1820; Project Gutenberg #23684. The phrase opens a poem whose imagery follows ripening, harvest and the sounds of the season.

“To Autumn,” final stanza, in Keats: Poems Published in 1820; Project Gutenberg #23684. The line follows the question “Where are the songs of Spring?” and answers by valuing autumn’s own sounds.