Quotes from John Keats, 1818

...we find what he says true, as far as we have experienced, and we can judge no further but by larger experience — for axioms in philosophy are not axioms till they have been proved upon our pulses. We read fine things, but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

I think poetry should... strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.