Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. – John Keats
I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. – John Keats
I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost 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
A true quotation cannot be divorced from the character who uttered or scribbled it; it should say as much about the person quoted as about the particular subject referred to, and for this reason an anthology of quotations should be a kind of portrait gallery. – Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, “Introduction”