"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."
"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
"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."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
"Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit"