“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affe…”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination — what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.”

— John Keats

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Title: Wikiquote: John Keats
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Context

To Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817)

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Keats, John. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John Keats. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats

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