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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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“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
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“or that writing a poem you can read to no one
is like dancing in the dark.”
― The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
is like dancing in the dark.”
― The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
“Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.”
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“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
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