My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again – my Life seems to stop there – I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving – I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you ... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion – I have shudder'd at it – I shudder no more – I could be martyr'd for my Religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that – I could die for you.

He wrote later: "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime creative of essential Beauty" again and again turning to the question of what it means to be a poet. Susan Wolfson. The poems "Fancy" and "Bards of passion and of mirth" were inspired by the garden of Wentworth Place.

He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. John Keats (pron. : /ˈkiːts/; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.