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."

"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."

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."

"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."

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

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

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