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Quote by John Keats
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it

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. – 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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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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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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