Odes Quotes

“the further idea that to fit it for such tasks two things above all are necessary, growth in human sympathy through the putting down of self, and growth in knowledge and wisdom through strenuous study and meditation”
― John Keats, The Odes (Complete Edition) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. Romantic odes of sensual imagery, from Grecian Urn to Nightingale, with Sidney Colvin's biographical introduction