Poetry Is A Man Arguing With Himself;

The Birds Are Silent In The Woods. / Just Wait: Soon Enough / You Will Be Quiet Too

Take The Time To Write. You Can Do Your Life's Work In Half An Hour A Day.

Literature, The Study Of Literature In English In The 19th Century, Did Not Belong To Literary Studies, Which Had To Do With Greek, Latin, And Hebrew, But Instead With Elocution And Public Speaking. So When People Read Literature, It Was To Memorize And To Recite It.

You Only Had Widespread Literacy And Books That People Could Afford In The Middle Of The 19th Century. Did More People Read Poetry At The Turn Of The 20th Century When There Were About Fifty Million People?

[osip] Mandelstam Was Killed By Stalinist Forces.