I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. – John Keats
Love is my religion – I could die for it. – 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
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. – 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
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. – John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. – 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
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. – 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
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. – John Keats
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. – John Keats
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days — three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. – John Keats
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats
The poetry of the earth is never dead. – John Keats
Love is my religion — I could die for it. – John Keats
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. – John Keats
