Selected Letters Quotes

“I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”
― John Keats, Selected Letters

“My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of everything but seeing you again — my life seems to stop there — I see no further. You have absorbed me.”
― John Keats, Selected Letters

“A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity -- he is continually in for -- and filling some other Body -- The Sun, the Moon, the Sea, and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute -- the poet has none; no identity -- he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.”
― John Keats, Selected Letters