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
world chaos graves
The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.
world height misery
No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
firsts genius world
Works of genius are the first things in the world.
soul tears world
Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
soul world use
Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.
drinking ideas world
I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.
music life-and-love world
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
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.
writing next world
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
world woven invention
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
budding days flowers later summer until warm
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.
kings poet shall simply
They shall be accounted poet kings / Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.
benign careful fingers soft
O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign / Our gloom-pleased eyes.
age draught hath
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...