Spring Break. I'm having trouble getting rid of all my library books. I am not reading them, hoarding them. I think I might read them: I will read them someday. I open them and consider which to take back. Surely, not this one. I have notes in it. Unfinished business. I had ideas to yet think with this one. Definitely not this one. Look, there's a great random passage, if I take it back, I lose that.
Glean it and let it go:
The Heritage of Symbolism C.M. Bowra
". . . and that what matters is the instinctive joy of life symbolised by the chestnut-tree in blossom and the body swayed to music. Philosophy may hold out consolations to the poet, but in the end he rejects them and goes back to life" (212). ( Regarding Yeats)
I had it because it was one of Merrill's books he read.
Chestnut-tree
blossom
swayed
consolations
goes back
life.
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