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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but… — John Keats

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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats
1818
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Stages of life
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Poem
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1818
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John Keats
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Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.
Original citation
Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1818, preface.

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