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