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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. ↗

— John Keats

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The poetry of the earth is never dead. ↗

— John Keats

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

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Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. ↗

— Dario Fo

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ↗

— John Keats

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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. ↗

— John Keats

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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. ↗

— John Keats

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Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people. ↗

— John Keegan

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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well. ↗

— John Keegan

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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗