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“Love is my religion - I could die for it.”
— John Keats
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
— John Keats
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats
“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
— John Keats
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
— John Keats
“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
— John Keats
“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”
— John Keats
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
— John Keats
“Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.”
— John Keats
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
— John Keats
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
— John Keats
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
— John Keats
“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.”
— John Keats
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
— John Keats
“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
— John Keats
“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.”
— John Keats
“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
— John Keats
“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
— John Keats
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
— John Keats
“You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
— John Keats
“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.”
— John Keats
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
— John Keats
“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
— John Keats
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
— John Keats
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
— John Keats
“He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”
— John Keats
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
— John Keats
“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
— John Keats
“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”
— John Keats
“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
— John Keats
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