John Keats

If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel with it.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I have been half in love with easeful Death.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—with a rose and a myrtle tree.

I would rather be a worm than a man.

I have a horrid presentiment of my own death.

I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and have children by a Sonnet.

I have a great objection to being a Poet.

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

I feel my fate to be a most unhappy one.

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

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

I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death.