The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pa…

John Keats
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The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. ✨ John Keats (2013). Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated), p.752, Delphi Classics
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The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. ✨ John Keats (2013). Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated), p.752, Delphi Classics

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