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…
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The Worldly Hope men set their hears upon
Turns Ashes- or it prospers; and...
– From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”
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The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold…
– Louis MacNeice, from “The Sunlight on the Garden” (1938)
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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards...
– T.S Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”
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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)
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Love gave the power, but took the will.
– Wystan Hugh Auden, from “The Climbers” (1936)
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…I had not thought death had undone so many.
– T.S Eliot, from “The Waste Land”