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
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
positive happiness real
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
flower sleep winter
Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
selfish love-is breathe
My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.
lakes water poetry
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.
mind body rooms
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses
kissing teenage-love valentines-day
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
valentines-day kissing romantic-love
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
inspirational mean science
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
cheer failure discovery
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.