John Keats

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour…

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does…

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth…

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at…

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates…

Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer…

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced…

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object…

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my…

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth…

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye…

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and…

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer…

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass…

The poetry of the earth is never dead…