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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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...

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.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

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...

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy...

Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy...

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.

Health is my expected heaven.

Health is my expected heaven.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe...

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe...

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...

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our...

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our...