"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
-John Keats
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
-John Keats
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
-John Keats
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"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."
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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."
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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
-John Donne
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"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
-Leonard Cohen
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
-Robert Frost
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
-Emily Dickinson
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"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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