John Keble

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Notable quotes

“As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.”
— Lectures on Poetry 1832–1841 (1844), translated from the Latin by Edward Kershaw Francis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), Vol. I, Lecture XVI, p. 317.
“When you find yourself, as I daresay you sometimes do, overpowered as it were by melancholy, the best way is to go out, and do something kind to somebody or other.”
— Letters of Spiritual Counsel and Guidance, ed. R. F. Wilson (Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1870), Letter III, p. 6.

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