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“This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly”
― The Complete Poems
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly”
― The Complete Poems
“What is the greatest wonder in the world?
That, every single day, people die,
Yet the living think they are immortal.”
― Mahabharata
That, every single day, people die,
Yet the living think they are immortal.”
― Mahabharata
“When the bells justle in the tower
The hollow night amid,
Then on my tongue the taste is sour
Of all I ever did.”
― Additional Poems
The hollow night amid,
Then on my tongue the taste is sour
Of all I ever did.”
― Additional Poems
“More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
“As soon as that majestic force,
which had already pierced me once
before I had outgrown my childhood, struck my eyes,
I turned to my left with the confidence
a child has running to his mamma
when he is afraid or in distress
to say to Virgil: 'Not a single drop of blood
remains in me that does not tremble--
I know the signs of the ancient flame.'
But Virgil had departed, leaving us bereft:
Virgil, sweetest of fathers,
Virgil, to whom I gave myself for my salvation.
And not all our ancient mother lost
could save my cheeks, washed in the dew,
from being stained again with tears.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
which had already pierced me once
before I had outgrown my childhood, struck my eyes,
I turned to my left with the confidence
a child has running to his mamma
when he is afraid or in distress
to say to Virgil: 'Not a single drop of blood
remains in me that does not tremble--
I know the signs of the ancient flame.'
But Virgil had departed, leaving us bereft:
Virgil, sweetest of fathers,
Virgil, to whom I gave myself for my salvation.
And not all our ancient mother lost
could save my cheeks, washed in the dew,
from being stained again with tears.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
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