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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

BY JOHN KEATS

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, 

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; 

Round many western islands have I been 

Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. 

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told 

That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; 

Yet did I never breathe its pure serene 

Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: 

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 

When a new planet swims into his ken; 

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes 

He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men 

Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— 

Silent, upon a peak in Darien. 

 

I especially love these lines:  

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 

When a new planet swims into his ken; 

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Edited July 20, 2019 by katty11

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"I have never in my life made music for money or fame.

God walks out of the room when you're thinking about money."

~ Quincy Jones ~

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I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. second inaugural addresss, Jan. 20, 1937. Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, vol. 6 (1941).

 

Edited April 21, 2018 by paoladegliesposti

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Happy Earth Day!

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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

~ Joseph Campbell