John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

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

“The poetry of earth is never dead.”

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

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”

“Touch has a memory.”

“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!”

“I have been half in love with easeful Death.”

“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”

“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.”

“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing.”

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music.”

“I am in a very paradoxical state, for I am in love with you.”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.”