“My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk.” Describing the disciplined seclusion of imaginative life · Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 1820 Devotion Imagination Solitude
“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.” Declaring love as a personal creed worth dying for · Letter to Fanny Brawne, October 1819 Devotion Love Religion
