“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.” John Keats
“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.” John Keats
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.” John Keats
“The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.” John Keats
“Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.” John Keats