John Keats

"Call the world if you please the vale of soul-making."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."

"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death."

"Sudden obstacles shall only make the more firmly resolved."

"Fair is most foul, and foul most fair."

"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake."

"It keeps eternally awake a sense of gratitude for the great things that have been done for me."

"A man is in love when something in his chest catches."

"The human imagination has come to an impasse."

"Every human creature is constituted to be that sweet security for some other."

"I think the best thing for being sad is to learn something."

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

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

"Good morning, I am in a sort of temper, indolent and supremely careless."

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."

"My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet."

"I go among the fields and catch a glimpse of a stoat or a fieldmouse peeping out of the withered grass."

"The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"I have been astonished that Men could die martyrs for religion—I have shudder'd at it."

"I have this moment received a most gratifying letter from Shelley."

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

"The first time I read an excellent book it is to me just as if I had a new sense."

"Every thoughtful mind must be aware that the death of Keats has been an irreparable loss."

"I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."

"Heartache upon heartache, joy upon joy."

"You will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity."

"I could not live without the love of my friends."

"There must be something wrong in my blood—there is such a horrid power in beauty."

"I would jump down Aetna for any great purpose."