John Keats Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 31, 1795 - February 23, 1821
Birthday: October 31
Death: February 23
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
source: 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)
topic: Book, Night, Thinking, Cloudy, I Stand Alone
