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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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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 love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. – 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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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. Id like to publish it someday. – Aaron Neville

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there cant be much to it. – James Schuyler

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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just whats in your heart. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Ive read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. – John Barrymore

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