...beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases. And to say aloud to herself yes, in spite of it all, some shape of beauty moves away the pall from our dark spirits. She did ask her mama to explain what it means I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul...

...began to hear what Steamboat was saying, there in the midst of the crowd that hid him from us. "... A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence . . ." "What the hell is that?" I asked her. "Keats," she said. "'Endymion' ... we used to read it...

...cultural work. As Keats wrote in Endymion, they sought "A thing of beauty" that is able to wreathe "A flowery band to bind us to the earth, / Spite of Despondence" (i, 11. 7-8). Of course, this pursuit of "A thing of beauty" to oppose to massive political and social...

...pleasure. It is not a way of arresting the destructive flow of time, but of criticising corrupt power ('the inhuman dearth/ Of noble natures, of the gloomy...and o'er-darkened ways / Made for our searching'). In so far as these remarks have attracted any comment from Keats's readers, they have usually been...

...very beginning of Endymion, which is the largest arena for Keats's basking in Apollonian textures: on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to...natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er darkened ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the...

...nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing...despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures . . . Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees...

...Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature, op. cat., pi/3. 118 Keats, 'Endymion': ' . . . yes, in spite of all, / Some shape of beauty moves away the pall / From our dark spirits.' 119 The Precious Garland, op. cit, verse 173. 120 The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, op. cit., p.i84....

...nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing...natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o 'er-darkened ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the...

...beautiful doesn't perish, and this "fact" becomes the basic motive for creativity, the making of things: Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth. (11. 6-7) The process of making beautiful things (say, poems) is imaged as the making of a rope of...

...nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing...days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways 10 Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our...