John Keats Quotes about Experience
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279