John Keats

"In a drear-nighted December, too happy, happy tree."

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

"I have been astonished that Men could die."

"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate."

"I cannot exist without poetry, without eternal objects of sense."

"Endymion will be a test, a trial of my Powers of Imagination."

"Every day things are happening which I wish to know the beginning middle and end of."

"I have had a thousand different conceptions of you."

"How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world impress a sense of its natural beauties on us!"

"I have been very negligent in the most material points, and what follows on that negligence I shall have to pay for."

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

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too."

"I think a Hero is that person who has done something fearless and noble."

"Scenery is fine, but human nature is finer."

"I would rather be a sparrow with my chances than an owl with certainty."

"Unriddle what thou art kind and gentle Soul."

"There is not a fiercer Hell than the failure in a great object."

"I am your debtor for vouchsafing to me the happy life of Literature."

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

"I fear there is this weakness in the human side of me."

"I can never feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its beauty."

"Even the greatest genius is hampered by the times."

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."

"Why should we be owls or poets or anything but Sensations."

"I have not the slightest feel of humility towards the Public."

"Sorrow is the only truth I can accept with grace."

"I am sometimes a little in the dark about your first principles."

"Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love."

"I wish the Gene of boundless fancying was to be found in my constitution."