“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

—  John Keats

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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English Romantic poet 1795–1821

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