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John Keats

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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Keats means that poetry feels most powerful when it expresses ideas the reader has deeply thought about but hasn't fully put into words. It should resonate so closely with the reader's inner feelings that it seems like recalling a personal memory rather than encountering something new.

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