If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me

John Keats
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. ✨ Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820
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If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered. ✨ Letter to Fanny Brawne, ca. Feb. 1820

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