John Keats — "I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and…"

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

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

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

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

"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."