When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.
タグ: way, saying, feel, believe

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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
タグ: poetry, motion, hearts, emotion
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
タグ: above, poet, admire, others
I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
タグ: back, things, treasure, time
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
タグ: admire, others, people, me
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.
タグ: he, own, things, better
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