QuoteQuest“I scarcely remember counting upon happiness — I look not for it if it be not in the present hour — nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: John Keats
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
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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