Tag: Virgil
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Never Forget that the World is Beautiful
You, and I, should read more poetry. Your thoughts don’t have words every day They come a single time Like signal esoteric sips Of the communion Wine Which while you taste so native seems So easy so to be You cannot comprehend its price Nor its infrequency Emily Dickinson, 1452 Never forget that the world…
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Thoughts (Borrowed) While Looking at the Sky in Maine
By such signs, and on foot of such examples, some say that bees have supped a draught that is divine, that, as a matter of true fact, a god pervades the whole wide world, sea’s expanse and heaven’s height, whence flocks and herds and men, and all species of savage beast, derive that fine line…
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I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Last quarter I was lucky enough to work as a writing intern for a course which read Dante’s Inferno. I love Dante, despite (more likely because of) feeling that I’ll never do more than scratch the surface of the Commedia. Mostly, I just hang back and wonder at it. A few images in particular that…
Dan Yingst 