We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.