Collected Poems, 1919-1976
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“But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.”
Source: The Hovering Fly: And Other Essays
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“For intellect is a mansion where waste is without drain.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.”
“I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Poems
Source: Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection
“we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection
“All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead.”
Source: Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection
“Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus: For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“The twilight is long fingers and black hair.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Men cannot live forever But they must die forever.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976