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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.
—John Keats

Posted on September 2, 2003 at 11:52 PM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

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, Letters of John Keats

Posted on April 16, 2002 at 10:02 AM

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