“There 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
Author: John Keats
Category: nature
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“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
Author: John Keats
Category: religion
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“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: imagination
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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.”
— John Keats
Author: John Keats
Category: death
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