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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. ↗

— John Keats

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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. ↗

— John Keats

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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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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. ↗

— John Keats

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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. ↗

— John Keats

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

— Dario Fo

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. ↗

— John Keats

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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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