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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Cesare Pavese poet from Italy was born on September 9, 1908, had 41 years and died on August 27, 1950. Poems were written mainly in Italian language. Dominant movement is political.

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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