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
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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There is a budding morrow in midnight.
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O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
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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.
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Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass / Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
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O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.
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Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters; / Enough their simple loveliness for me.
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Four seasons fill the measure of the year; / There are four seasons in the mind of man.
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Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.
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Shakespeare led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.
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O cruelty, / To steal my Basil-pot away from me!
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To set budding more, / And still more, later flowers for the bees, / Until they think warm days will never cease, / For summer has o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.