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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William Butler Yeats poet from Ireland was born on June 13, 1865, had 73 years and died on January 28, 1939. Poems were written in Modern age mainly in English 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