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At the Palace of Jove PA Quotes
At the Palace of Jove PA: Poems
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Karl Kirchwey4 ratings, 3.00 average rating, 2 reviews
At the Palace of Jove PA Quotes
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“What would you have words do?' a poet asked me,
‘and is it the same thing as what you would have your life do?’
The sounds of their names in my memory:
these things have passed through the air and are no more.
Light, the queen of colors, in a hollow sanctuary.
Yet—not an image, but something in its own right, then.
I have learnt to love you late,
Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
I have learnt to love you late!
— Karl Kirchwey, from “Late Beauty,” At the Palace of Jove (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002)”
― At the Palace of Jove PA: Poems
‘and is it the same thing as what you would have your life do?’
The sounds of their names in my memory:
these things have passed through the air and are no more.
Light, the queen of colors, in a hollow sanctuary.
Yet—not an image, but something in its own right, then.
I have learnt to love you late,
Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
I have learnt to love you late!
— Karl Kirchwey, from “Late Beauty,” At the Palace of Jove (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002)”
― At the Palace of Jove PA: Poems
