Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674

"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

— Milton, John (1608-1674)

Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674

"[T]he soul / Reason receives, and reason is her being, / Discursive, or intuitive; discourse / Is oftest Yours, the latter most is ours, / Differing but in degree, of kind the same."

— Milton, John (1608-1674)

Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674

"Easier than air with air, if Spirits embrace / Total they mix."

— Milton, John (1608-1674)

Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674

"[H]orrour and doubt distract / His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir / The Hell within him; for within him Hell / He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell / One step, no more than from himself, can fly / By change of place."

— Milton, John (1608-1674)

Date: w. August 1814

"Yet as the Tuscan mid the snow / Of Lapland thinks on sweet Arno, / Even so for ever shall she be / The Halo of my Memory."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1817

"When by my solitary hearth I sit, / And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1817

"But what is higher beyond thought than thee?"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1817

"The thought thereof is awful, sweet, and holy, / Chacing away all worldliness and folly; / Coming sometimes like fearful claps of thunder, Or the low rumblings earth's regions under; / And sometimes like a gentle whispering / Of all the secrets of some wond'rous thing / That breathes about u...

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1817

"A sense of real things come doubly strong, / And, like a muddy stream, would bear along / My soul to nothingness."

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

Date: 1818

The soul knits "wingedly" with "the orbed drop of light" that is love

— Keats, John (1795-1821)