| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32191 |
| QUOTATION: | Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Keats (17951821), British poet. Letter, February 3, 1818. Letters of John Keats, no. 44, ed. Frederick Page (1954). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Keats Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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