"the third level of sleep"
Bachmann, Coleman, Follain, Knight, Roethke, Sappho, Reynolds
Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Peter Filkins):
Wanda Coleman:
Jean Follain (trans. W.S. Merwin):
Etheridge Knight:
Theodore Roethke:
Sappho (trans. Anne Carson):
Sir Joshua Reynolds, re the painter Frans Hals:
He was not without ability to portray strong individual characteristics, but alas, he could never join to this the most difficult and most important part of the art of painting, a patience to carefully finish what he had often correctly planned and begun.
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