John Keats

"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."

"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!"

"Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit"

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."

"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all."

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"Here lies one whose name was writ on water."

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."

"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."

"Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits."

"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."

"I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet."

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