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

~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.

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You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

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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.

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Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

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

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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

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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.

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 31st, 1795

Died: February 23rd, 1821

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