“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”

— John Keats

Letter to John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are 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.

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English Romantic poet 1795–1821

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