I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beaut…

John Keats
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I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them. ✨ John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, p.150
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I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them. ✨ John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, p.150

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