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  • You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

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    Letter to Shelley, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 323; echoing Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 7, st. 28, l. 5: 'And with rich metal loaded every rift'
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You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. - John Keats
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