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

— John Keats, To George Felton Mathew, November 1815

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.”

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

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness?”

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

“What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that a resistance is overcome.”

“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”