The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of mak... - John Keats

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

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

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"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."

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