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
boat fragile life monstrous poor sleep steep stop
Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci
kings poet shall simply
They shall be accounted poet kings / Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.
fancy home pleasure thy
Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home
love romantic believe
I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.
time men years
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.
sweet flower kissing
Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail, The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale, The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones, The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones, Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet, If human souls did never kiss and greet?
queens flower violet
That queen of secrecy, the violet.
book wine doors
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.
failure discovery success-and-failure
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
dream paradise sects
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
happiness sweet wine
Wine is only sweet to happy men.
knowledge conversation endeavor
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
cheesy-love cheesy creeds
My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
inspiration love-is beautiful-love
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.