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

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. – John Keats

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