True Man

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    The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one’s own growing inner self.... The mind’s dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one’s own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one’s confrontation with one’s own mortality.
    Harold Bloom (b. 1930)

    A man growing old is going
    down the dark stairs.
    He has been speaking of the Soul
    tattooed with the Law.
    Of dreams
    burnt in the bone.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)