Tuesday, February 06, 2007

News at Eleven: The philosopher Montaigne, faced

with the same deep dread of death, decided that the only way to overcome it was to avoid its contemplation, instead acting as an uneducated peasant whom "nature teaches not to think of death except when he actually dies". Larkin's poem ends on a similar note, and here the end of contemplation is brought about by nature.

from The Age: The medicine that is poetry

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