Where are the War Poets? (1943)
The Ad-dressing of Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Context: You now have learned enough to see
That Cats are much like you and me
And other people whom we find
Possessed of various types of mind.
For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse —
But all may be described in verse.
“Rebels, especially successful rebels, were of necessity bad subjects and worse governors.”
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
Speech in Birmingham (9 July 1906), quoted in The Times (10 July 1906), p. 11
1900s
“Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
Verse.
Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke (1960)
Rilke's Letters
Context: What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”
"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
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