John Keats

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

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.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.