25. “Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.”― Austin Clarke 26. “People who...
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In Norse Myth: The poet Bragi (who was married to Idunn) said poetry began out of the peace treaty at the end of the Asir-Vanir war: They each went to a vat and spat their spittle therein. Then at parting the gods took that peace-token and would not let it perish, but shaped ...
War has always been the great wisdom of all spirits who have become too introspective, too profound; even in a wound there is the power to heal. A maxim, the origin of which I withhold from scholarly curiosity, has long been my motto: Increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus. ["The ...
Egill the poet (Rahul Kohli), Seid-Kona the sorceress (Jamie Clayton), and Ulfr (Peter Stormare) (it is completely unclear to this writer whether this entity is a man in a wolf’s attire or a wolf who has merged with a man, or neither, or both) do their best to elevate the meag...
Arnold Bax’s death in Cork on Saturday October 3, 1953, just over fifty years ago, brought to a close an intense and lasting relationship with Ireland which had begun for the composer just over fifty years before that again. Bax’s involvement with Ireland and with things Irish had a pro...
aDu Fu Thatched Cottage Located at the side of the Flower Washing Brook in the western suburbs of Chengdu, the former resident of the cottage is the famous Tang Dynasty poet, Du Fu du Fu Thatched村庄位于花洗涤的溪的边成都的西部郊区,村庄的前居民是著名唐朝诗人, Du Fu [translate] a我只想...