“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of be...” — John Keats Quote

“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.”

“Stop and consider! life is but a day;”

“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”

“In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.”

“Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.”

“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”