"Beauty is truth, truth beauty/that is all
ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
. ~ John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, 1884
Literary warriors like Keats had it right.
The poet must fight
and he must write
The truth is here
We hold so dear
Yet throw it away
In meaningless ways
Pick up your pen
You women and men
Who write from the heart
As if it were art
And before you depart
Will offer your life
One day at a time
The courage to find
The best of yourself.
And offering it up
In love-drenched rhyme
~Adam Stuart
January 3, 2011
Grateful to have taken the time to get to know a spirit such as Keats, and find out they shared the same Spanish Steps in Rome before they died.
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