Such writing [John Keats’s] is a sort of mental masturbation—he is always f—gg—g his imagination .—I don’t mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor any thing else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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