Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Quote by John Keats

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among...

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who...

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who...

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his...

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to...

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the...

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of...

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

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

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms...

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms...

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick...

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick...