 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 Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...development as a poet. Looking back on its composition, he wrote to his publisher, In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, & the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea & comfortable... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 248 pages
...of favor from a safe and landed pastoral "green" to a Romantic piscatorialism: In Endymion, I leapt headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable... | |
 | Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...sensation & watchfulness in itself — 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, & the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea & comfortable... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...sensation & watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself — In 25 Endymion, I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, & the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea & comfortable... | |
 | Kay Redfield Jamison - Psychology - 1996 - 388 pages
...different sort of way by Keats: "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, & the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea & comfortable... | |
 | Shelby Foote, Walker Percy - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 324 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.... | |
 | Larry H. Peer, Diane Long Hoeveler - Literary Collections - 1998 - 262 pages
...be matured by law & precept . . . 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, & the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea & comfortable... | |
 | Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...sensation & watchfulness in itself - 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, & the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea & comfortable... | |
 | James Fenton - American poetry - 2003 - 288 pages
...sensation & watchfulness in itself — 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, & the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea & comfortable... | |
 | Christoph Loreck - Endymion (Greek mythology) - 2005 - 236 pages
..."occasional poetic failure." Thus, not until October 8, 1818, was Keats to write: "In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, & the rocks [...] I would sooner fail than not to be among the greatest [...].""3 Indeed, Keats's early... | |
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