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

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion--I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

— John Keats

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion I have shuddered'd at it. I shudder no more. Furthermore, I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. Furthermore, I could die for you.

— John Keats

I have clung To nothing, love’d a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream!

— John Keats

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

— John Keats

I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem and to be given away by a novel.

— John Keats

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.

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

— John Keats

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

— John Keats