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Quotes by John Keats
- 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.
- Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
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