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Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

John Keats

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John Keats
Age: 25 †
Born: 1795
Born: October 31
Died: 1821
Died: February 23
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When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain.
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I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
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My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
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You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest the last smile the brightest the last movement the gracefullest.
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