Byzantium

Travel releases spontaneity. You

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Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Madonna dei fusi.’ You open, as in childhood, and–for a time–receive this … Read more

… woman is frequently

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… woman is frequently praised as the more creative sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium…. To call a child a poem may be a pretty … Read more