Friday, April 6, 2007

And yet I know I shall be raised up

And now out of life, permanent revenant
I assert: the caterpillar feet
Of these predictions lead nowhere,
It is necessary to understand
That a poet may not exist, that his writings
Are the incomplete circle and straight drop
Of a question mark
And yet I know I shall be raised up
On the vertical banners of praise.


- Ern Malley, "Sybilline"

(A história de Ern Malley, à qual cheguei através do livro de Carey, é tão boa ou melhor que as de "Ossian" e "Thomas Rowley", e merece uns minutos do vosso dia. Quem tiver mais tempo pode encontrar um relato mais completo no site oficial do poeta.)

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