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.

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you _ I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again _ my Life seems to stop there _ I see no further. You have absorb__ me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving _ I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you _ I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion _ I have shudder__ at it _ I shudder no more _ I could be martyr__ for my Religion _ Love is my religion _ I could die for that _ I could die for you.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

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

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.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

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.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.