John Keats Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

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

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

“Love is my religion - I could die for it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”

“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”