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
winter silence evening
On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
beauty art imagination
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
health heaven expected
Health is my expected heaven.
morning flower fall
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.
time years moments
O aching time! O moments big as years!
thinking class may
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
music life-and-love world
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
tree ought
It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.
fear war failure
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
weed dream sea
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
life eye men
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.
wish arms thunder
I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
mean men doubt
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
i-love-you thinking world
--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.