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Devotion to craft, melancholy, and love inform nearly every page of this 40-year correspondence between two great 20th-century poets.
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Despite an air of profound tragedy, I found this solipsistic work suffocating and repetitive. Abandoned mid-way.
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“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
―
“Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Agamemnon
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.”
― Agamemnon
“Out of Ireland have we come.
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
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