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The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.
Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.
