John Keats

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!