John Keats, Endymion (1818), Book III, line 965.

O 'tis a very sin For one so weak to venture his poor verse In such a place as this.

— John Keats on Poets

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John Keats

About John Keats

John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement.