Yet the heart of each burned from the other. They burned with each other, inwardly. This they would never admit.
D. H. Lawrence, from ‘Women In Love’
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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly’s Burden; “We were missing a present”
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MACBETH:
Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
‘Macbeth’ is truly one of Shakespeare’s best works. It has redefined the limits of ambition and its unique plot is a treat in itself. Macbeth’s ambition had always been deeply rooted into mind and his heart, which is why the ‘Fate Sisters’ serve as fuel to fire. Upon the wordings of Macbeth’s letter, Lady Macbeth decides to expel remorse from her heart, if there were any in the first place. Lady Macbeth’s character is similar to that of “The Tempest”‘s Caliban, upon “whose nature, nurture can never stick”. Although, Duncan’s murder had become a necessary evil for Macbeth, it ripped Macbeth’s integrity into shreds, as if obliterated it from existence.
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“A Rhyme to the Reader”
The mind is like a flowing river, like the rustling leaves from coast to coast, and what path the rhyme may take, is known to none but the soul.
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