The poetry of the earth is never dead. - John Keats

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

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

"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."

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

"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."