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Wow Brainy Quote: New York
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"Charles A. Perrone" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:58:09 -0400
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TiM; Much obliged. Your search engines did better than mine. "Minha
patria e' minha lingua" is one of Pessoa's best quotes not actually
in a poem. Happy trails.


>>  > Pound Folks:  My aging memory can't recall the poem alluded to below
>>  > by Robert Lowell's former secretary. Who remembers off hand?:
>
>As it happens, the passage is found at
>http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/q141627.html
>This page gives no source that I can find, but it sounds like it
>comes from the 1913 "Patria Mia."
>
>And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far
>from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after
>squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry,
>for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
>
>--
>
>Timothy Materer, 107 Tate, English Department
>University of Missouri, Columbia MO 65211
>Fax: 573 882-5785
>The James Merrill Electronic Discussion Forum
>http://www.missouri.edu/~engtim/jm.html
>-"THIS FICTIVE SPACE WE HERE INHABIT IS / THE STOP TO TIME"

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