arterial quotes

I know the colour of that blood; it is arterial blood; I cannot be deceived in that colour; that drop of blood is my death-warrantöI must die.

-Keats,John
On examining a drop of blood that fell from his mouth as he lay dying from tuberculosis. Quoted in  John Sutherland  The Oxford Book of Literary  Anecdotes (1975).

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