John Keats

I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.

The world is a well-known school of adversity.

I find that I cannot exist without you—I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again—my Life seems to stop there—I see no further. You have absorb'd me.

I am too much in love to be happy.

I have been in love with you ever since I first saw you.

I am not afraid of death; I am only afraid of not living.

I have a firm belief in the immortality of the soul.

I am convinced that there is no such thing as a perfect happiness.

I am in a very odd state of mind.

I have been a lover of the beautiful, and I have found it in all things.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down.

What quality is your beauty? It is a thing to be looked at, not touched.

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

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.

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

Several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.