February 1, 2012
 Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,  And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;  Round many western islands have I been  Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.  Oft of one wide expanse had I been told  That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;   Yet did I never breathe its pure serene  Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:  Then felt I like some watcher of the skies  When a new planet swims into his ken;  Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes  He star’d at the Pacific — and all his men  Look’d at each other with a wild surmise —  Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
-Keats
Feelin a lot like ol’ stout Cortez as I near the end of my semana primera here in Buenos Aires

 Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
 And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
 Round many western islands have I been
 Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
 Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
 That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; 
 Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
 Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
 Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
 When a new planet swims into his ken;
 Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
 He star’d at the Pacific — and all his men
 Look’d at each other with a wild surmise —
 Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

-Keats

Feelin a lot like ol’ stout Cortez as I near the end of my semana primera here in Buenos Aires