"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth." — John Keats

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

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)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

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)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

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

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