Today marks 205 years since John Keats died in Rome — twenty-five years old, lungs gone, with so much unwritten. Yet what he left us.
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness."
He understood permanence instinctively, even as his own life dissolved. Reading Keats in February has a particular ache to it — that thin winter light that makes beauty feel both urgent and fragile at once. Two centuries on and the ache hasn't diminished one jot. If anything it deepens.
Rest well, John. You earned it. #poetry #nostr
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