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bibliophilia (books to look for)

posted by drew

03.04.10

The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, Constantine, et al, eds. (Norton, 2010)

excerpt:

When I heard you were dead, Heraclitus,
tears came, and I remembered how often
you and I had talked the sun to bed.
Long ago you turned to ashes, my Halicarnassian friend,
but your poems, your Nightingales, still live.
Hades clutches all things yet can't touch these.

--Callimachus
(third century BCE;
translated by Edmund Keeley)

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