“We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us — and if w…”

“We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us — and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle or amaze with itself, but with its subject.”

— John Keats

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Title: Wikiquote: John Keats
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To John Hamilton Reynolds (3 February 1818)

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Keats, John. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John Keats. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats

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