John Keats

"I am ambitious of doing the world some good; if I should be spared, that may be my destiny."

"There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality."

"Prove to me that you love me without telling me in words."

"The generous Critic fanned the sacred fire."

"I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy."

"Sorrow is my fortune, and I am rich in sorrow."

"Taste is the only morality—tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"I feel as if I am dying—I should have had some flowers with me."

"Every instant has its cruelties; every pleasure its alloy."

"I am ambitious, but I do not think of myself as ambitious."

"The world seems against me; yet I have not the least fear of defeat."

"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!"

"I hope sincerely I am wrong in my suspicions, but I cannot help suspecting."

"I am certain that things may be accomplished by resolution."

"The setting sun will always set us to rights, or anything else."

"I could be annihilated were it not for a certain sense of duty."

"Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream?"

"I have never been able to perceive how any woman can ever be truly noble."

"Why should we be owls, when we can be eagles in our thoughts?"

"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window are my children."

"What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon Poet."

"I am ever afraid that your anxiety for me will lead you to some imprudence."

"I find that I cannot exist without Poetry—without eternal Poetry."

"I can see nothing further than the absolute necessity of my existence."

"I should not by rights be in this world—I should be in the next."

"The feel of not to feel it."

"I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing."

"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."

"I could pass my whole life in conversation."

"I wish I could settle myself to one subject for it has no effect on me."