In a recent blog post I enumerated poems or parts of poems that have been amiably haunting me all my life. Yet there is one of tem that, though frequently recurrent, I did not mention. It runs "Ce lourd secret que tu quemandes""this heavy secret that you beg for.It comes from a sequence of quatrains by Guillaume Apollinaire entitled "Vitam Impendere Amori' (to overhang life with love,) an allusion to Rousseau's "Vita…
SOURCE: John Simon at 04:36PM on January 4, 2019