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All writing is a form of prayer.

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

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

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 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

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