Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. – 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
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections, and the truth of imagination. – John Keats
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. – William Least Heat-Moon