July 2011
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“That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes...”
– O Me! O Life!, Walt Whitman
Jul 3rd
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June 2011
16 posts
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“Man are haunted by the vastness of eternity, and so we ask ourselves: will our...”
– from The Iliad, Homer
Jun 28th
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“I keep those animated moments of you as our catalogue of chances rushed and...”
– Somewhere Along the Line, Simon Armitage
Jun 26th
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“And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle...”
– Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold. 
Jun 25th
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“You have taken the east from me, you have taken the west from me; you have...”
– Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory
Jun 24th
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“In your absence’s depth to hear that you love me Is to hear heaven...”
– Asunder (Les Séparés), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (Translated by Thomas D. Le)
Jun 22nd
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“A passion then for watches, bangles, cuffs A likely story: you were lashed by...”
– I say I say I say, Simon Armitage
Jun 22nd
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“For the time of youth was fled, And grey hairs were on my head.”
– The Angel, William Blake
Jun 21st
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“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
– T.S. Eliot, from East Coker
Jun 20th
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“Only in books the flat and final happens Only in dreams we meet and interlock,”
– Philip Larkin
Jun 20th
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“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried...”
– Epitaph on a Tyrant, W.H Auden
Jun 17th
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“There are a kind of thieves that come by day with dogmas and policies and...”
– M.S.A, Sheenagh Pugh
Jun 14th
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“Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the...”
– Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Jun 13th
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“And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”
– John Donne, 72. Death be not proud.
Jun 12th
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“Religion used to try, That vast moth-eaten musical brocade Created to pretend...”
– Aubade, Philip Larkin
Jun 12th
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“What mad Nijinsky wrote About DiaghilevIs true of the normal heart; For the...”
– From September 1, 1939, W. H. Auden Norton footnote: “The Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) wrote that his former lover, the ballet impresario Sergey Diaghilev (1872-1929) ‘does not want universal love, but to be loved alone.’”
Jun 12th
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“Run with me now where no God can catch us”
– Gethseman Nude,  Robert Hamberger
Jun 12th
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