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.
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I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.
John Keats
What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.
John Keats
Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy.
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Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth Oh for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-staind mouth.
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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow
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