John Keats

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

“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.”

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

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

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”

“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”