John Keats

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
John Keats - Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - died 1 year later
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.
John Keats - Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

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.

Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?
John Keats - Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.
John Keats -
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

- John Keats