"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.---------
Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Surviving horsewoman abandons 2 companions fallen in the wet sand
On Clarel
ReplyDeleteI finished Melville's desert verse
Belief the way but not its dress
Yet faith demands a form to reverse
The dark appeal of meaninglessness