"The great difference between poets and madmen is the destiny of the madness that possesses them." --Saramago, op cit


    Bonnefoy: Une Pierre

          Porphyry's solar tome
    --see it as a mass of somber stones.
  Long have i perused Porphyry's tome;
now i've arrived where there is no more sun.

(my tr; 1985)


"All spectres now resume their dim domain" --Owen Meredith


Read the words. (via Matt Arnold)


"It is a measure of our own depravity that we do not hoot this man from the stage..."


"There are two kinds of poems."