"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life" — Jean Ingelow

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Jean Ingelow Quote