Louis Simpson’s Followers (6)
Louis Simpson
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Francois Villon's The Legacy & The Testament
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45 editions
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The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
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2003
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8 editions
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At The End Of The Open Road
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1963
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16 editions
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Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology
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There You Are
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1995
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4 editions
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Caviare at the Funeral
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An Introduction to Poetry
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1972
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13 editions
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A revolution in taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell
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1978
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7 editions
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Searching for the Ox
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1976
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6 editions
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A Dream of Governors
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1959
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7 editions
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“Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out.
Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.
I have closed my arms again. They must do without.
To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb.
Do not write!
Do not write. Let us learn to die, as best we may.
Did I love you? Ask God. Ask yourself. Do you know?
To hear that you love me, when you are far away,
Is like hearing from heaven and never to go.
Do not write!
Do not write. I fear you. I fear to remember,
For memory holds the voice I have often heard.
To the one who cannot drink, do not show water,
The beloved one's picture in the handwritten word.
Do not write!
Do not write those gentle words that I dare not see,
It seems that your voice is spreading them on my heart,
Across your smile, on fire, they appear to me,
It seems that a kiss is printing them on my heart.
Do not write!”
―
Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.
I have closed my arms again. They must do without.
To knock at my heart is like knocking at a tomb.
Do not write!
Do not write. Let us learn to die, as best we may.
Did I love you? Ask God. Ask yourself. Do you know?
To hear that you love me, when you are far away,
Is like hearing from heaven and never to go.
Do not write!
Do not write. I fear you. I fear to remember,
For memory holds the voice I have often heard.
To the one who cannot drink, do not show water,
The beloved one's picture in the handwritten word.
Do not write!
Do not write those gentle words that I dare not see,
It seems that your voice is spreading them on my heart,
Across your smile, on fire, they appear to me,
It seems that a kiss is printing them on my heart.
Do not write!”
―
“It must swim for miles through the desert
Uttering cries that are almost human.”
― The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
Uttering cries that are almost human.”
― The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001
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