John Keats

“Love is my religion - I could die for it.”

“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”

“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”

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

“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

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

“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”