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POETIC GENIUS It is not in my nature to fumble— I will write independently.—l have written independently, without judgment. I may write independently, and with judgment hereafter. The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and. piped a silly pine, and took tea and comfortable advice.—l was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. —John Keats, letter to James Augustus Hessey, October 9, 1818.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24820, 9 March 1946, Page 5
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