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.
life men departed
It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.
stars eye science
'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?
flower passive receptive
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
music men tears
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
blessed self healthy
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
relationship spears
Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
relationship
You are always new to me.
beautiful hate flower
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"
soul tears world
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
dream hope shadow
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
flower marigolds rounds
Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.
delight philosopher virtue
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
giving joy unrest
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.