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
book wine doors
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.
failure discovery success-and-failure
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
dream paradise sects
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
happiness sweet wine
Wine is only sweet to happy men.
knowledge conversation endeavor
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
cheesy-love cheesy creeds
My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
inspiration love-is beautiful-love
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.
thank-god dying easy
Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.
done blushing
There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
depression philosophy angel
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
half use done
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.
silence littles noise
A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
silence speech might
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
children silence foster-children
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.