More from John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In contextLove in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.Poems (1820), “Lamia”, Pt. II, l. 1- Epitaph for himself (1821)
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
