Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters... - John Keats
"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."
More quotes by John Keats
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
"Here lies one whose name was writ on water."
"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!"
"Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit"