The “Acres of Perhaps” in Emily Dickinson’s “Their Hight in Heaven comforts not”. #111Words #EmilyDickinson #TheirHightInHeavenComfortsNot #FrançoisRabelais #TomasTranströmer #RobinFulton #Poetry #Literature #Perhaps #GenitiveMetaphor https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-acres-of-perhaps-in-emily.html

Tracing a phrase from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” (1962) to François Rabelais and Tomas Tranströmer. #111Words #VladimirNabokov #PaleFire #Novel #Literature #Poetry #Translation #FrançoisRabelais #TomasTranströmer #PeterAnthonyMotteux #RobinFulton https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/05/tracing-phrase-from-vladimir-nabokovs.html

Weary of all who come with words, words but no language
I make my way to the snow-covered island.
The untamed has no words.
The unwritten pages spread out on every side!
I come upon the tracks of deer in the snow.
Language but no words.

From March 1979
by Tomas Tranströmer,
Translated by Robin Fulton

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