Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends Quotes

“I will clamber through the clouds and exist.”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

“I find I cannot exist without Poetry”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

“O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake,
Would all their colours from the sunset take:
From something of material sublime,
Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time
In the dark void of night. For in the world
We jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd...”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

“There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half done;" so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

“miserable—We can see horribly clear, in the works of such a Man his whole life, as if we were God’s spies.—What”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

“Health and spirits can only belong unalloyed to the selfish man—the”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends