Poetry and Baking

By Mike Schultz in Poetry on

Maria Popova spies John Keats combining the two. > “The best of Men have… a kind of spiritual yeast in their frames which creates the ferment of existence — by which a Man is propell’d to act and strive and buffet with Circumstance.” Keats, born on this day in 1795,…

Keats on Quiet

By Mike Schultz in Slowness on

“Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his differences from others.” — John Keats, Of Time and an Island via Book Mania [http://bookmania.me/post/…