John Keats

"My only friends have been books"

"From the moment of birth we are immersed in death"

"I have been writing a little too much lately"

"The grand march of intellect"

"I have felt rather anxious about its progress"

"Beauty overcomes us like a fine piece of sculpture"

"I am ambitious of doing the world some good"

"Sweet Fancy come"

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections."

"Negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"I have nothing to confess; I am as innocent as the driven snow."

"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."

"Every man has his speculative minute, but he is a predominant ass who mistakes his quotidian in-and-out breathing for the sea and the motion of the world."

"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."

"You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest."

"Morbidity must creep in among those who live on such anticipated pleasure."

"I would never wish to have friends first and admire them second."

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty is intense."

"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy."

"I have scarce a music book left; all are scattered like use and wont to the four winds."

"My sense of beauty never so much interferes with my sense of truth as to prevent me from being just."

"Ambition is like the sea wave made by the moon."

"That which is creative must create itself."

"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it."

"The touch of cold philosophy; it will clip an angel's wings."

"I wish I could remember my first introduction to the world of books."

"If a man comes to bridegrooms before he is a man, he has no right to marry."