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  • A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

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    Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 8 October 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 170
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A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder. - John Keats
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