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.
Romantic poet
From a letter to John Taylor, outlining his poetic philosophy and 'axioms' of poetry.
1818
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