“Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”

— John Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, stanza 3, 1820

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.”

“Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters.”

“Man is created free, and is free, / Though he be born in chains.”

“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”