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.

Quote by John Keats

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour...

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

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...

Health is my expected heaven.

Health is my expected heaven.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all...

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all...

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

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...

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you...

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you...

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth...

I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing,...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing,...

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

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...

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...