Famous Quotes | ...stare into the lake of sunset...

...stare into the lake of sunset as it runs
boiling, over the west past all control
rolling and swamps the heartbeat and repeats
sea beyond sea after unbearable suns;
think: poems fixed this landscape: Blake, Donne, Keats.
- Muriel Rukeyser
Attribution: Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980), U.S. poet. “Homage to Literature,” lines 10-14 (1938). William Blake (1757-1827), John Donne (1572-1631), and John Keats (1795-1821) were important English poets.

Categories: Literature, Nature, Poetry And Poets

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