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• As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to… — Jane Campion
• If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. — Jane Campion
• When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it… — Jane Campion
• To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of… — George Gissing
• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton
• Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all… — Tillie Olsen
• We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth… — Thom Gunn
• Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley… — Winston Churchill
• What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our… — Coleman Barks
• We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved… — Hans Zinsser
• I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. — Aravind Adiga
• Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth… — Jane Campion

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