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John Keats Quotes about Poetry

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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is

A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

Lakes, Water, Poetry

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.

Writing, Poetry, Soul

Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 224

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

Song, Sweet, Poetry

'To George Felton Mathew' (1817) l. 1

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

Poetry, Identity, Literature

John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

Light, Poetry, Half

John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.26

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

Horse, Poetry, Pegasus

'Sleep and Poetry' (1817) l. 186

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