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To Keep a True Lent Is this a fast, to keep The larder lean? And clean From fat of veals, and sheep? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish? Is it to fast an hour, Or ragged go, Or show A downcast look, and sour? No: ’tis a fast, to dole Thy sheaf of wheat, And meat, Unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from st... See more
Robert Herrick • Lent 2025
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Rainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
We shine with brightness. And I who am here dissembled Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.
T.S. Eliot • The Essential T.S. Eliot
sick on my journey ,
my dreams go wandering
on this withered field
Matsuo Basho, Death Haiku, 1694
philo-sophic-ally-speaking • Matsuo Bashō’s Death Haiku
Her love was of the lily variety;
Vladimir Nabokov • Laughter in the Dark (Vintage International)
Can Volume, Pillar, Pile, preserve thee great? Or must thou trust Tradition’s simple tongue, When Flattery sleeps with thee and History does thee wrong?
Lord Byron • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Good Bones
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