"Of course, they didn’t get that staring at flowers is a form of being busy. That watching the flow of the clouds is an important activity. That in a period of depression and fear, to think about beautiful things, your dreams and wishes, and to smile is highly, highly important, a vital task." -- from 'The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen' by Shokoofeh Azar (the translator is anonymous for security reasons)
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O commemorate me where there is water,Canal water, preferably, so stillyGreeny at the heart of summer.@bookgaga Yes! And 'stilly greeny'. And as Kavanagh requested, there is a bench by the canal dedicated to him, actually two, one has a statue of the poet reclining on it.
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The longlist for this year's International Booker Prize has been released and it's a good one.The longlist for this year's International Booker Prize has been released and it's a good one. Several of the books are already on my to-read piles, but there are a couple more I'll be adding.
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O commemorate me where there is water,Canal water, preferably, so stillyGreeny at the heart of summer.O commemorate me where there is water,
Canal water, preferably, so stilly
Greeny at the heart of summer. Brother
Commemorate me thus beautifully
Where by a lock Niagarously roars
The falls for those who sit in the tremendous silence
Of mid-July. No one will speak in prose
Who finds his way to these Parnassian islands.
A swan goes by head low with many apologies,
Fantastic light looks through the eyes of bridges--
And look! a barge comes bringing from Athy
And other far-flung towns mythologies.
O commemorate me with no hero-courageous
Tomb--just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by.
~~ 'Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin' by Patrick Kavanagh