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 excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
- 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- 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.
- What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.