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Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
Judge-Rapporteur
Physician
Poet
Beauty
Whatever
Whether
Art
Truth
Must
Seizes
Existed
Imagination

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