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
taken men should-have
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
inspirational life midnight
There is a budding morrow in midnight.
fear voice immortal-soul
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
inspirational life climbing
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
silly sea rocks
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.
best-friend kissing movement
You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
knowledge thinking people
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
rivers solitude foxgloves
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.
world woven invention
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
love lying heart
I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!
inspirational truth lying
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
book experience experiencing-things
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
life beauty beautiful
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
tree way life-is
Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit