John Keats

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

"I am determined to overcome every obstacle by resolution and time."

"In love the body is everything; all the differences which disturb us now are lost in Death."

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

"I shall do my duty by the public and the private."

"I wish I was as certain of the end of this sentence as I am of the beginning."

"Beauty is its own excuse for being."

"A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Pole-star of Poetry."

"I have more than once alluded to different Classes of human Intellect."

"Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, and scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?"

"The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man."

"I have been endeavouring to discover the safest path to the top of the mountain."

"All the Arguments I can think of against the Immediate Certainty I feel of myself are nothing."

"I am sometimes too hasty in my judgments on men and things."

"That which is creative must create itself."

"A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence."

"I have always had the same religiously earnest Wish for the happiness of my friends."

"Every mental pursuit takes out of the life the bloom and the power."

"I have a horrid morbid turn of mind which has shown itself occasionally."

"The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream; it is to me a convincing creative principle."

"I like to remain like a mist, never to be caught."

"The world is worth the winning and worth the warring for."

"I have formed my own opinions and I would not change them for the world."

"Ay, on the shores of darkness there is light."

"I have this moment received a letter which has made me blush like a Girl."

"I go by Contraries so much in my temper."

"Be sure of this; I shall not be content with mere passing through Nature."

"I think we should rest our heads on something."

"The greatest Beauty is that of Form under the Conditions of Motion."

"I hope to give the world new sensations."