John Keats
John Keats
John Keatswas an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 October 1795
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Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
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All breathing human passion far above, / That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,/ A burning forehead and a parching tongue.
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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
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Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.