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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- John Keats
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- Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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