 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 83by Albert Elmer Hancock - 1908 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Clarence De Witt Thorpe - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 238 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1927 - 342 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.... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - Aesthetics - 1927 - 228 pages
...ratification of what is fine. . . . 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.... | |
 | 1964 - 292 pages
...in writing Endymion was far from that which underlies this essay. Nevertheless, like him, ' 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.'4... | |
 | 140 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... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 784 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 8c comfortable... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 332 pages
...Hessey, one of his publishers: "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... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - Antiques & Collectibles - 1981 - 332 pages
...Hessey, one of his publishers : “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... | |
 | R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...what Blackwood or the Quarterly [critical reviews] could possibly inflict .... 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.... | |
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