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"The Sunlight on the Garden"
The sunlight on the garden ( Read more... ) -
"Epitaph"
So I may say,
"I died of living,
having lived one hour";
so they may say,
"she died soliciting
illicit fervour";
so you may say,
"Greek flower; Greek ecstasy
reclaims for ever
one who died
following
intricate songs' lost measure."
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"Ozymandias"
I met a traveller from an antique land ( Read more... ) -
"At Baia"
I should have thought ( Read more... ) -
When I come to lie in your arms, you sometimes ask me in which historical moment do I wish to exist. And I will say Paris, the week Colette died. . . . Paris, August 3rd, 1954. In a few days, at her state funeral, a thousand lilies will be placed by her grave, and I want to be there, walking that avenue of wet lime trees until I stand beneath the ( Read more... )
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One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master ( Read more... ) -
"On Love"
Some people would never have fallen in love if they had never heard of love.
La Rochefoucauld
If sex is the way out of the family, falling in love is the route back, the one-way ticket that is always a return. From a psychoanalytic point of view these miracles of affinity are echoes of our first fascinations. Such states of absorption are memory in ( Read more... )
