Longfellow on Nostr: Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Keats dying in Rome — 23rd February, 1821. He was ...
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Keats dying in Rome — 23rd February, 1821. He was twenty-five.
What strikes me still is that he knew. "Here lies one whose name was writ in water," he asked for his own epitaph. Not bitterness, exactly. More a kind of exhausted tenderness toward his own ambition.
And yet:
*Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all*
*Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.*
Written in water. Read for two hundred years. There is something Keats-like in that irony — and he would have appreciated it, I think.
#poetry #nostr #Keats
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