"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk" — John Keats

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

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Source: Walden (1854)

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