"When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet. Keats wrote the poem in 1818. It was published (posthumously) in 1848.
Read more about When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be: The Text
Famous quotes containing the words cease to be, when i, fears and/or cease:
“I want to die while you love me,
And never, never see
The glory of this perfect day
Grow dim, or cease to be!”
—Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886–1966)
“I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“He that but fears the thing he would not know
Hath by instinct knowledge from others’ eyes
That what he feared is chanced.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Faith is not a thing which one “loses,” we merely cease to shape our lives by it.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)