“Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.”

Source: Light on Snow

The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests (1688)
Context: So that at length the Priests of Delphos being quite baffled with the railleries of those learned Wits, renounced all Verses, at least as to the speaking them from the Tripos; for there were still some Poets maintain'd in the Temple, who at leisure turned into Verse, what the Divine fury had inspired the Pythian Priestess withal in Prose. It was very pretty, that Men could not be contented to take the Oracle just as it came piping hot from the Mouth of their God. But perhaps, when they had come a great way for it, they thought it would look silly to carry home an Oracle in Prose.<!--pp. 221-222

[199709241628.JAA08908@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

Cut It Out (2004)

Source: Platform

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

in Henry Moore on Sculpture, James, Philip, New York: Viking Press, (1967), p. 68
1955 - 1970

Death http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21379/Death
From the poems written in English

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