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. 527
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. 2.11K
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel. 573
I do think better of womankind that to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not. 1.74K
I have never yet been able to perceive how any thing can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning – and yet it must be. 589
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not. 2.19K
To bear all naked truths, and to envisage circumstance, all calm, that is the top of sovereignty. 462
But this is human life: the war, the deeds, the disappointment, the anxiety, imagination’s struggles, far and nigh, all human. 573
