Poetry Forum

There is anybody hear readed this famous book by Dino Buzzati?


Törless.

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above: Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love: My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than bef...

Robert wrote:Yes, that is the one Georg. He was once a Moto GP champion. He now rides in WSB but will ride again in Moto GP next year.

I don't like Moto GP, but i like F1. And SENNA IS GOD!

Robert wrote: Wittgenstein? I used to like Sartre and Nietzsche.

I don't like Sartre's and Nietzsche's philosophy.

Robert wrote: Do you know of Alex Barros?

Brazilian motorcycle pilot?
I know.

to clarify - I knew you probably spoke Portuguese, I noticed the umlaut in the name "Torless" and I know there is a German population in Brazil as well. I just wondered if you perhaps knew both languages. Sorry I phrase things awkwardly sometimes. And sorry to belabor. There is no problem...

Yeats is generally considered to be one of the twentieth century's key English-language poets. Yet, unlike most modernists who experimented with free verse, Yeats was a master of the traditional verse forms. The impact of modernism on Yeats' work can be seen in the increasing abandonment of the mor...

Watch Her Disappear From Alice Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair That rose in strangled ebony curls Moving in a yellow bedroom light The air is wet with sound The faraw...

Jaerlost wrote:I love Tom! The Piano Has Been Drinking is one of the best songs ever made.

I like this song. Wait's voice is excessively hoarse.
But i think Waits has best lyrics.

Thank you.

barrie wrote:Abandon hope all ye who enter here.....

Welcome to PG - I'm sure you'll enjoy it here - you'll definitely learn, we all do.

Good luck

Barrie

Thanks.

Georg, Along with Keats and Tennyson, Yeats was one of the first poets I remember reading. He's certainly a poet to be recognised. I've been busy the last few days listening to the audio links from the thread 'Audio Poetry On The Net'. I found this reading by Yeats from 1932 on Cameron's link. It's...

pseud wrote:sorry, didn't realize how stupid my question was...I retire now...and nice icon.

That no problem.
Do you know Wittgenstein's Philosophy?

pseud wrote:So you're from Brazil and you have an Umlaut in your name. Do you know German and Portuguese by any chance? I'm just curious...

Welcome Georg

I know Portuguese, of course.

I am Georg Törless from Brazil. I hope that i can enjoy this forum.

Cya.

Is there anyone here who knows this brazilian writer?
I know that his major books are transleted to the english.


Törless.

I prefer Georg Orwell, but i read from Camus just The Stranger and from Orwell 1984, one of my favorite novels, and Animalfarm.

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/7/9/6/8/728697_356x237.jpg What can i say about Thomas Alan Waits ? He is one of my favorites musicians. His songs also have great lyrics, as we can see in your albuns. Here i will post my favorite wait's lyric: Poor Edwar, from Alice (2002). Poor Edward Did you ...

Yeat's grave and his epitaph.

camus wrote:The Stolen Child

This is one of the firts published poets of W.B. Yeats. It is included in Crossways (1925), his first poem's book.


Young Yeats

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dream...

Well, i think that W.B. Yeats is the most famous e recognized ireland's poet of all time. Another Yeat's poem: The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-d...

Hello, i am a new user here. My first topic is about one of the bests poets os all time: William Buttler Yeats . In begining i post one of his best poems, in my opinion: When You Are Old When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and d...