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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

John Keats
Sad, Depression, Water
Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 25 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 287
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.