PREMAKEERTI DE ALWIS

Breath your voice to those nightingales Breath your voice to those nightingales, so they may sing sweeter Offer your cheeks to the pink lotus overwhelming the pond, so they look still more rosier  Let the jewels hold the sparkle of your eyes tight, so those may shine brighter  share your vermilion lips with the tender leaf of Ironweed, so those may stay lovelier Pour your tears upon the flowing stream, so its waves may not fade Allow the breeze absorb the soothing sizzle of your laughter Hold your deep blue hair behind the clouds, so those may gain a better shade Let the turf take a leaf from your tender feet, so they...

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ILIAD

His mind fluttered; his fingers almost trembled. He was only eight years old & the epic narration of a war that had lasted no less than a decade held him, gripping tightly, at once with a pain and a pleasure in an unbearable state of being. Unbearable, for the reason, now it praises the gallantry of a hero; then it weeps at the death of the opponent of the hero. He sighs with relief when the hero makes a herculean effort to recover from the relentless assault and deals a mortal blow at his opponent in the nick of time; then he sighs again in sorrow when the darkness of death falls upon the opponent of his hero, for he too was somebody’s...

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Writer Vs. His Work

Writer Vs. His Work  Being compiled by bunpeiris Principle of Impersonality as supreme in all arts. Like God in the universe, the writer should be omnipresent in his work but never visible. Gustave Flaubert http://en.nkfu.com/gustave-flaubert-quotes/ As we know, there is often a great difference between the man & the writer. The writer may be bitter, harsh & brutal while the man be so meek & mild that he wouldn’t say boo to a goose. Somerset Maugham: The kite Literature, literary creation, is not distinct or separable, for me, from the rest of the man…. I may taste a work, but it is difficult for me to judge it independently...

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