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Matthew Arnold’s Secret
Of Matthew Arnold’s habit
of meditating on the sayings
of great thinkers, a different one
each week, after first writing them
down in his pocket diary,
Lionel Trilling wrote,
“It was as if he were obeying
as literally as he might
the commandment to fasten
the truth upon the door
of his house and upon his hand
and to set it as a frontlet
between his eyes." Aha!
Welcome to the Minyan, Matt.
-- DL
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Matthew Arnold.
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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