I love the Romantic poets. Quote me Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, and I swoon.
I've never been a huge Keats fan, although you have to give him credit for things like "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." I mean, really, how many people know that's Keats?
But the real star of Bright Star is Fanny Brawn, played beautifully by Abbie Cornish.
Keats sends her a love letter, the first one, I think, and Fanny grabs Toots, her little sister, and says, "I love you, I love you, I love you."
That's the thing about love, real love, that is: The more you get, the more you give. That's what's so amazing about it.
From one of Keats' letters to Fanny:
"My Mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it. I never felt my Mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment - upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses."
Sigh.
Be still my heart.
Monday, October 5, 2009
"there is a holiness for the heart's affections..." - John Keats
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