You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
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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 KeatsThere is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.