John Keats

“Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven!”

“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,What can I do to kill it and be free?”

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

“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.”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain,While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!”

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”

“The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.”

“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”

“I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving.”

“My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving – I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you … I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion – I have shudder’d at it – I shudder no more – I could be martyr’d for my Religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you.”

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

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death”

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”