Love is my religion – I could die for it.
Category Archive: John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
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.