Quote by John Keats
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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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

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Theres a blush for won t, and a blush for shant, and a blush for having done it: Theres a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it. – John Keats

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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. – M. H. Abrams

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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Poetry: the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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