John Keats

"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."

"By my soul, I felt thankful even for calumnies."

"I love every object on earth, either for its qualities, beauty, or use."

"I have never been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning."

"The only way to overcome is through another's love."

"I wish you health and every good, and that you may live to see the completion of your works."

"A solitary eagle is absolutely alone."

"Life must be undergone, and then we shall know its secret."

"It has been said that Music is the passion of my life."

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."

"All things counter, original, spare, strange; whatever is fickle, freckled, etc."

"How many bards gild the lapses of time."

"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession."

"The public has no claim upon me."

"I wish I was as certain of the end of this sentence as I am sure of being Monarch of the Sea."

"Darling I wish our lives could be as carefree as a couple of birds."

"There is a creative force in every human being."

"The thoughtless and the ignorant have not that great and mighty instrument—the press."

"I should feel a great many scruples in beginning an answer so militant."

"Your worthy self all the world knows; but the particular excellence lies hidden from common observation."

"Would I were a girl again."

"I am growing sick of an idle life."

"Take the sweetest drop the whole world has to offer and it becomes less valuable when it cannot be shared."

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

"I am one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade."

"Every improvement must come from within."

"We must think or not think."

"The greatest pleasure I have had is not the greatest pleasure."

"Beyond the heated argument lies a cooling peace."

"I have not one wish to alter my life."