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| 3381. | Chapel Deacon by R. S. Thomas | | Who put that crease in your soul,
Davies, ready this fine morning
For the staid chapel, where the Book's frown
Sobers the sunlight? Who taught you... |
| 3382. | Light Is More Important Than The Lantern by Nizar Qabbani | | Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook,
And the kiss more important than the lips.
My letters to you
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| 3383. | Poetry Is A Kind Of Lying by Jack Gilbert | | Poetry is a kind of lying,
necessarily. To profit the poet
or beauty. But also in
that truth may be told only so.
Those who, admirably, refuse
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| 3384. | In Dispraise Of Poetry by Jack Gilbert | | When the King of Siam disliked a courtier,
he gave him a beautiful white elephant.
The miracle beast deserved such ritual
that to care for him p... |
| 3385. | Searching For Pittsburgh by Jack Gilbert | | The fox pushes softly, blindly through me at night,
between the liver and the stomach. Comes to the heart
and hesitates. Considers and then goes a... |
| 3387. | Autobiographical by Erica Jong | | The lover in these poems
is me;
the doctor,
Love.
He appears
as husband, lover
analyst & muse,
as father, son
& maybe even God
& surely death... |
| 3388. | Autumn Perspective by Erica Jong | | Now, moving in, cartons on the floor,
the radio playing to bare walls,
picture hooks left stranded
in the unsoiled squares where paintings were,
a... |
| 3389. | LoveSpell: Against Endings by Erica Jong | | All the endings in my life
rise up against me
like that sea of troubles
Shakespeare mixed
with metaphors;
like Vikings in their boats
singing Wa... |
| 3390. | Narcissus, Photographer by Erica Jong | | "...a frozen memory, like any photo,
where nothing is missing, not even,
and especially, nothingness..."
-- Julio Cortázar, "Blow Up"
Mirror-ma... |
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