Quote #9

Roy Campbell was one of the very few great poets of our time. His poems are of great stature, and have a giant's strength and power of movement. They have, too, an extraordinary sensuous beauty. Everything is transformed to greatness.

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  1. You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where…
  2. He became a Roman Catholic, but an unpleasantly militant one, sharing the hysterically nihilist mood of some of the fascist rebels in Spain…
  3. Of all the clever people round me here I most delight in Me - Mine is the only voice I care to hear, And mine the only face I like to see.
  4. With white tails smoking free, Long streaming manes, and arching necks, they show Their kinship to their sisters of the sea - And forward h…
  5. We shall not meet again: over the wave Our ways divide, and yours is straight and endless - But mine is short and crooked to the grave: Yet…
  6. The timeless, surly patience of the serf That moves the nearest to the naked earth And ploughs down palaces, and thrones, and towers.
  7. The frost stings sweetly with a burning kiss As intimate as love, as cold as death.
  8. Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive.

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