The secret of surprise
A pithy tip from one of the masters, succinctly conveyed in Clive James' translation. Â It's certainly given me food for...
Synaesthetic sound
An early evocation of synaesthesia - I like Dante's portrayal of a voice in terms of visibility. This is from...
Summary impatience
I liked this sharp injunction to Dante to hurry up and spit it out. You can imagine an impatient parent...
As dogs in summer
Desperate people, condemned to eternal infernal cruelties, are likened to dogs failing to fight off the tiny tormenting assaults of...
A poet’s prayer
In fact, a prayer for any writer. Having just read John Drury's marvelous appreciation of George Herbert's life and his...
A fair request
In an age where you are expected to shout, tweet, bluster and generally blather about everything you do, it is...
New-grown green
At the precocious signal of spring, I see new-grown green peeping all about. And isn't that a sweet scene, sitting...
Scum-skinned tide
Something alarmingly contemporary about this polluted surface in Dante's Inferno, especially when he discerns, through the miasma, dead souls fleeing.
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The urge of bees
A charming way to convey the genesis of ideas or desires, likening them to the urge of bees to make...
Well-ordered spirit
Three simple words perhaps summing up the pinnacle of much spiritual seeking, especially if once reached, it spills over with...
Learning to write
How do you learn to write? My belief is that if fine writing comes from you, mostly it is due to...
All the details of the tree
A fine injunction to a writer, first to face truth and then to give unhidden all the details. Neither is...
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