Purple-budded seedlings
A description of alders which caught my eye. It is winter here, and I am waiting for the first sign...
Sad-coloured weather
What colour is sadness? As it's referring to weather, I assume grey, but sometimes grey cloud cover can be a...
Quite the character
At first glance, Florian Wrangel sounds like the kind of person you'd love to have as an occasionally visiting uncle,...
Rising and falling like …
A description of Lindos which charmed me as much for its sea-cleaned pebble paving as for its simile for undulating...
The seeds of civilization
Saint-Exupéry uses wheat as a metaphor for civilization, seeds stored and sown in order to take root in people, something...
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...
Most reprehensible
This charming exchange is from a favourite children's book, discovered and devoured when already a so-called grown up.
I liked...
Alphabet of the gods
How wonderful, this discovery of a new form of writing, frost-penned, readable only to numinous eyes, and not to us.
...
Orange-sweet air
What an enticing image!
...I surmise that you are now basking in the sun-pure, orange-sweet air of California.
A nosegay spurned
A touching simile to describe a young girl who feels rejected by the world.
I was like...
As it sounded, so it looked
In the preface to his marvelous translation of Dante, Clive James mentions the poet's pithiness. I can't judge it in...
Liver-thick mud
A touching recollection by Seamus Heaney of a moment decades before which wedded him to a particular landscape. I like...
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