Brian Haslett

“But strength alone, though of the Muses born,
Is like a fallen angel: trees uptorn,
Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchres
Delight it; for it feeds upon the burrs,
And thorns of life; forgetting the great end
Of Poesy, that it should be a friend
To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit; a poor Indian’s sleep
While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“The poetry of earth is never dead”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“O may these joys be ripe before I die.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems