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.
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All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead and a parching tongue.John Keats
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.
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Still wandering in the bands
Of love?
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There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
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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.
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