I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Quote by John Keats

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all...

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all...

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to...

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all...

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all...

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high...

Verse, Fame and Beauty are intense indeed, But Death intenser - Death is Life's high...

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth...

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth...

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed...

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed...

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which...

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which...

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is...

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is...

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! -...

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! -...

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick...

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick...

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.