Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little... - John Keats
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
"The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate."
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
"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!"
"Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits."
"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."