English
Poet
(October 31,
1795 -
February 23,
1821)
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination."
"I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else."
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it."
"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
