Love is my religion—I could die for it.

About John Keats

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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They...

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Scenery is fine—but human nature is finer.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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Love is my religion—I could die for it.

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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

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When I have a terrible need of—shall I say the word—religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

—Charles Lamb

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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

—Quentin Crisp

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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.… Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

—Beatrix Potter

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Love is my religion - I could die for it.