| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 32190 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Keats (1795–1821), British poet. letter, Feb. 27, 1818. Letters of John Keats, no. 51, ed. Frederick Page (1954). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Keats Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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