"Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul."
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
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Source: Letter to James Hessey, 8 October 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 374
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