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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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the...

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the...

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

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

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

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...

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

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

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

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

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...

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates...

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates...

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...

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever;...

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a...

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a...

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.