"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

20 February 2019

Heart.


When you have a poem by heart, you possess it more truly and more strangely than you do your own dwelling place, because the poem possesses you.  My religion is the appreciation of high literature. Shakespeare is the summit.

Harold Bloom

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