"I am fit for nothing but literature" — John Keats

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

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

Source: Walden (1854)

Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Source: The Two Paths, lecture 2 (1859)

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