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I'd never heard of this writer till I chanced upon him on the Stinging Fly website. Life in the Universe is as down to earth as it is magical, empathetic, compassionate; all in all extraordinary. It's a real buzz to feel privileged to chance upon a r
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“...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”
― Metamorphoses
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”
― Metamorphoses
“what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“And besides, we lovers fear everything”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
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