The poetry of the earth is never dead. nature & poetry
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. imagination, romance & truth
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. beauty
There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music. music
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. nature
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? intelligence
Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. Valentine's Day
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. art
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. beauty
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. imagination
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. beauty & truth
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. beauty, imagination & truth
Love is my religion - I could die for it. love & religion
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. love
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. failure
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. death & greatness
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. poetry
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. experience
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. beauty