Saturday, December 16, 2023

Unseen, Unknown

Alexander Pope, Ode to Solitude:

                Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
                Thus unlamented let me die,
                Steal from the world, and not a stone
                Tell where I lie.

The Certainty Of Being Alone

Hippolyte Taine, A Tour Through the Pyrenees , tr. J. Safford Fiske (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1875), 149-51: This valley is solitar...