 That which is creative must create itself. In " Endymion" I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and...  John Keats: A Literary Biography ... - Page 81by Albert Elmer Hancock - 1908 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1917 - 380 pages
...Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict." And in the same letter: "In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | Byron Johnson Rees - Literary Collections - 1919 - 580 pages
...sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. In "Endymion" I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 272 pages
...sensation and watchfulness in itself — That which is creative must create itself— In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | CHRISTOPHER MORLEY - 1923 - 196 pages
...cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness . . . In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | Christopher Morley - Poetry - 1923 - 182 pages
...cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness . . . In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | John Keats - 1923 - 256 pages
...sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. In " Endymion," I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | Amy Lowell - 1925 - 706 pages
...sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. In 'Endymion,' I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - England - 1925 - 272 pages
...sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself. In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the Soundings, the quicksands and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.... | |
 | Elizabeth Glass Marshall - Criticism - 1925 - 356 pages
...matured by law and precept, but by sensation. and watchfullness in itself — In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortabl advice.... | |
 | Clarence De Witt Thorpe - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 240 pages
...extracts from the letter to James Augustus Hessey, already partially quoted: In " Endymion," I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better...with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore and piped a silly pipe. . . . Had I been nervous about its... | |
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