“Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.”

— John Keats, Hyperion: A Fragment, Book III, 1819

About John Keats

1795 – 1821

English Romantic poet, author of "Ode to a Nightingale".

“How beautiful, if sorrow had not made sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.”

“Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.”

“Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.”

“Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.”