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Wagner’s House on Lake Lucerne
Away from the bustle of the lakefront trade across the wide expanse of clouded blue on a small knot of land pushed out into the bay behind a copse of trees down the gravel lane – the house sits small … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Johann von Goethe, legacies, Lucerne, museums, music, Richard Wagner, silence, Switzerland, tools
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Quote of the Day
Oh my dear friend, would you like to know why genius so rarely breaks its bonds, why it so seldom bursts upon us like a raging torrent to shatter our astounded souls? My friend, it is because of the sober … Continue reading
A Modern Erasmus
When I have a little money, I do not buy food or other such trivialities. I buy books. – Erasmus Ah, as Lawrence Olivier might say in one of his Nazi- or vampire-hunting roles … “I haf enlarged ze library … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Erasmus, Henry Miller, Johann von Goethe, Knut Hamsun, Laurence Olivier, Rainer Maria Rilke, Seamus Heaney
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