"What the imagination seizes
as beauty must be the truth."
-John Keats

"Nothing ever becomes real
till it is experienced...
even a proverb is no proverb to you
till your life has illustrated it."
-John Keats

"The only means of strengthening
one's intelligence is to make up
one's mind about nothing...
to let the mind be a
thoroughfare for all thoughts."
-John Keats

"There is nothing stable in the world;
uproar's your only music."
-John Keats

"Poetry should please by a fine
excess and not by singularity.
It should strike the reader as a wording
of his own highest thoughts,
and appear almost as a remembrance."
-John Keats

"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."
-John Keats

"Don't be discouraged by a failure.
It can be a positive experience.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success,
in as much as every discovery of what is false
leads us to seek earnestly after what is true,
and every fresh experience points out some
form of error which we shall afterwards
carefully avoid."
-John Keats