Tag Archives: Resilience

MUSE

Posted on September 22, 2018 by Anna Akhmatova

Then, before dusk, waiting for her to come, Life seemed to be hanging in the balance With that honour, that youth, that freedom That her visits dancing tune enhance.

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A POET’S WORLD SONG

Posted on September 22, 2018 by Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa

Oh poetic voice, reach beyond boundaries! Seek further for the truth within all forms, Please transcend within and without us all Even if the emotion tears open our heart,

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SONNETS XVI: LOVE AND ART

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Of course as with all writers who pen with ink .        There is high and the low and a mediocre style, .        In marble imagining too comes the rich or vile, .        Which only later I came to with my … Continue reading →

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POETRY

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Marcel Proust

À Gustave L. de W. <Lovers. Happy Lovers> (La Fontaine) Love rises hearts as does the perfume of roses! It is wonderful to know a heart filled with love, And see through to her source which never closes And will … Continue reading →

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SLEEPWALKING-NIGHTS: ON WAKING DAYS – FIRST NIGHT

Posted on September 16, 2018 by August Strindberg

So goodbye, to you, it is a world of beauty, With cool rivers and groves of green! At the time of our parting, feelings relented, With our fresh thoughts also falling ill, I admitted, that you were beautiful, And we … Continue reading →

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