Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
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John Keats
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About John Keats
John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by John KeatsI will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should a…
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.