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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Salvador Espriu poet from Spain was born on July 10, 1913, had 71 years and died on February 22, 1985. Poems were written mainly in Spanish language. Dominant movement is political.

Member of the day

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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