John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. ↗

— 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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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. ↗

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. ↗

— John Keats

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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. ↗

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. ↗

— John Keats

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

— John Keats

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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. ↗

— John Keats

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