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
pain pleasure pain-and-pleasure
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
love romantic men
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
inspirational life nature
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
want bright-star brighter
I want a brighter word than bright
sweet gone
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
running voice bird
The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
death divorce sea
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
night thinking hands
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance...
keys soul caskets
Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.
beauty truth needs
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
sky space swim
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.
writing thinking air
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.
divine nightingales
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
philosophy angel air
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.