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