John KeatsA collection of 26 posts

Valentines Day

Now a soft kiss – Aye by that kiss I vow an endless bliss.

Wisdom

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity ...

Poetry

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's sou...

Poetry

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should strike...

Poetry

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest th...

Nature

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that amon...

Nature

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.

Nature

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Music

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

Love

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have sh...