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

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. – June Jordan

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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry is a sort of homecoming. – Paul Celan

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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. – Anon.

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