John Keats on Women

“I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.”

“I met a lady in the meads   Full beautiful—a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light,   And her eyes were wild.”

“I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds. ... I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate, that I am content to be alone. Those things, combined with the opinion I have formed of the generality of women, who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar-plum than my time, form a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.”