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
song simple romance
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!
bears naked calm
To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty
blow wind tree
Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees.
men law work-out
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
relationship
You are always new to me.
relationship spears
Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.
pain heart sadness
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
To stay youthful, stay useful.
beautiful ifs
If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.
dream hope shadow
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
firsts genius world
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
religion wish anxious
His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
soul tears world
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
half has-beens
Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.