The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. – John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats
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. – John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats