There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality. ✨ …

John Keats
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There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality. ✨ Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 September 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 370
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There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality. ✨ Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 September 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 370

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