Tonight I am watching The King’s Speech with my London crew. It’s also somewhat cloudy outside. Therefore, I am feeling British. Therefore, I am also feeling some Keats. Here are some Keats-isms to brighten (but not really) this cloudy, London day.

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

“Love in a hut, with water and a crust,

Is—Love, forgive us!—cinders, ashes, dust;

Love in a palace is perhaps at last

More grievous torment than a hermit’s fast.”

“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.” 

He’s so intense. And love-sick. Just look at him!