Poem of the day

The Voice

I was the height of a folio, my bed just
backed on the bookcases’ sombre Babel,
everything, Latin ashes, Greek dust
jumbled together: novel, science, fable.

by Charles Baudelaire

Poet of the day

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Ingeborg Bachmann poet from Austria was born on June 25, 1926, had 47 years and died on October 17, 1973. Poems were written mainly in German language. Dominant movement is other.

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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.

© Matthew Arnold