“A culture is no better than its woods” – W H Auden, “Bucolics”
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Category: poetry
From “The Poetry of Thought”, George Steiner
We do speak about music. The verbal analysis of a musical score can, to a certain extent, elucidate its formal structure, its technical components and instrumentation. But where it is…
Flies Like Thoughts – Innokenty Annensky (1855-1909)
Flies Like Thoughts Flies, like black thoughts, have not quit me all day … – A N Apukhtin I’ve grown weary of sleeplessness, dreams. Locks of hair hang over…
Séamus Sweeney 