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.

Quote by John Keats

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his...

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! -...

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! -...

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which...

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which...

Health is my expected heaven.

Health is my expected heaven.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned...

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned...

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you...

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you...

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms...

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms...

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with...

Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with...

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the...

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the...

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age...

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age...

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.