May 2012
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“That man seems, to me, equal to the gods. He, if it is right to say, surpasses...”
– Catullus, “Poem 51” adapted from Sappho (my translation). This is also where the name of this blog comes from…
May 23rd
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“The Worldly Hope men set their hears upon Turns Ashes- or it prospers; and...”
– From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”
May 22nd
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“The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold…”
– Louis MacNeice, from “The Sunlight on the Garden” (1938)
May 22nd
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“Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards...”
– T.S Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”
May 21st
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“The force that drives the water through the rocks Drives my red blood; that...”
– Dylan Thomas, from “The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower” (1939)
May 21st
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“Love gave the power, but took the will.”
– Wystan Hugh Auden, from “The Climbers” (1936)
May 20th
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“…I had not thought death had undone so many.”
– T.S Eliot, from “The Waste Land”
May 19th
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