I really enjoy it when writers introduce their book or better yet, each chapter, with a quote or a poem. I just came across this one from Shakespeare in Mat Callahan's The Trouble With Music:
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact...
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven:
And as imagination bodies forth,
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Come across any in your latest reads?
4 comments:
You may not be interested in war,
but war is interested in you.
-Leon Trotsky
from The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway.
Great passage to start off Friday!
I have! Durbravka Ugresec's Ministry of Pain started w/a Marina Tsetaeva poem. One of my favorite poets.
Enjoyed this. It also is a glaring reminder how long it's been since I've read something heady.
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