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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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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. – John Keats

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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! – John Keats

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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. – John Keats

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