Quote#Poetry
As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact…
Quote byJohn Keble · 1792–1866
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lectures on Poetry 1832–1841 (1844), translated from the Latin by Edward Kershaw Francis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912), Vol. I, Lecture XVI, p. 317..
English (original)
As fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
— John Keble
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