John Keats

"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream—he awoke and found it true."

"If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me."

"Teasdale has no style—he has no character."

"The road to all literature is through the romance of nature."

"My chest of books divides into many heads and subjects."

"I shall desire and I shall find the best place for my future."

"Truth is like a torch, the more it's shook the more it shines."

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

"Every mental pursuit takes out of the body something."

"The eve of St. Agnes holds a peculiar magic in winter."

"I would jump down Aetna for your public and private devotion."

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."

"Some people seem to be created by accident, and nature has thrown up its hands in despair."

"There are too many peculiarities to explain the delicate thread of life."

"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion."

"Send me a few lines and tell me you have not forgotten me."

"The most unhappy existence is to pass through the world without touching it."

"Negative capability is when we are capable of being in uncertainties without reaching for fact."

"I have been in such a state of uncertainty that I could not see which way to turn."

"Even bees, the little Alchemists, extract sweets from the commonest flowers."

"In the midst of this world we are troubled on all sides."

"The human imagination does not like to be bounded."

"I love the principle, though I do not love the man."

"I wonder how I shall ever be able to cross so vast a sea of sensuality."

"It keeps eternally whispering suggestions to follow this path or that path."

"The greatest poets write about the most common experiences."

"I cannot exist without poetry—without eternal poetry."

"You might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist."

"Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey-bee like, buzzing here and there."

"The world is full of a number of things."