I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. — John Keats
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all. — John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. — John Keats
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. — John Keats
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination. — John Keats