Quote by John Keats
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections, and the truth of imagination. – John Keats

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats

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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals cant read any poetry. – Randall Jarrell

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. – George Oppen

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