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Sunday June 28, 2015

The mind is a city like London,
Smoky and populous: it is a capital
Like Rome, ruined and eternal,
Marked by the monuments which no one now remembers. For the mind, like Rome, contains
Catacombs, aqueducts, amphitheaters, palaces,
Churches and equestrian statues, fallen, broken or soiled.
The mind possesses and is possessed by all the ruins
Of every haunted, hunted generation's celebration.
—Delmore Schwartz
  American poet (1914-1972)

Source: "Overture" in Last and Lost Poems (buy from Amazon)





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