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  November 2022     1 year ago

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Fishy Reveries - Prologue

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–74), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, entry for 27 April 1773 (1791), to Johnson.1

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– by John G. Purdy

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This poem is head and shoulders above the rest. A true gift for unusual and evocative word combinations. As well, it is free from the introspective and self-indulgent tendencies of many of the poems here.
I'd be interested in reading more of the author' work. 

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Here's an odd contradiction. AZQuotes.com attributes the following quoute to Road to Hirschau, this section. It isn't here?

The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray. 

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