John Keats Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

  John Keats

  Writing, Poetry, Soul

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 224

• Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.

  John Keats

  Writing, Kissing, Letters

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

• I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.150

• All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

  John Keats

  Writing, Comfort, Clean

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 17 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins(ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 186

• Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

  John Keats

  Food, Writing, Hands

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.96

• No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.

  John Keats

  Writing, Thinking, Air

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.44, Delphi Classics

• All writing is a form of prayer.

  John Keats

  Prayer, Writing, Form

• I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.

  John Keats

  Writing, World, Next

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 24 August 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 146

• I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?

  John Keats

  Writing, Animal, Thinking

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.38

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