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Tag: Richard Wilbur

Eating Poetry (XXIX) – “Love Calls Us to the Things of this World”

Posted on November 26, 2011 by A. Jay Adler

. The title “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’ is taken from St. Augustine. “Plato, St. Teresa, and the rest of us in our degree,” says Wilbur, “have known that it is painful to return to the cave, to the earth, to the quotidian; Augustine says it is love that brings us […]

Posted in Culture ClashTagged Plato, poems, Richard Wilbur, St. Augustine4 Comments

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