02c. 1808 ADI love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.John Keats / quote ↗
04c. 1808 ADThere 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.John Keats / quote ↗
05c. 1808 ADLand and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.John Keats / quote ↗
06c. 1808 ADI 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1808 ADI 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 / quote ↗
12c. 1808 ADI am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.John Keats / quote ↗
13c. 1808 ADWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.John Keats / quote ↗
14c. 1808 ADPraise 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1808 ADI 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.John Keats / quote ↗
16c. 1808 ADPoetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.John Keats / quote ↗
17c. 1808 ADPoetry 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.John Keats / quote ↗
