"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Friday, December 28, 2012
Daily Dose
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Edward Fitzgerald
XLIX
"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither movers, and mates and slays,
And by one back in the Closet lays."
No comments:
Post a Comment