But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
Walk on air against your better judgement.
Poetry is language in orbit.
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.