You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. – John Keats
I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats