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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

Inspirational, Truth, Lying

Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

John Keats

Inspirational, Mean, Science

Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

John Keats

Inspirational, Life, Climbing

Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 185

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

John Keats

Inspirational, Learning, Tree

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

John Keats

Inspirational, Life, Persistence

'To Homer' (written 1818)

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats

Inspirational, Life, Nature

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

Inspirational, Reading Poetry, Remembrance

Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238