English - Poet | October 31, 1795 - February 23, 1821
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
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
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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.
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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.
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
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