QuoteQuest“My spirit is too weak — mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,And each imagin'd pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship tells me I must dieLike a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: John Keats
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (1817)
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Keats, John. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John Keats. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats
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