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Famous Ayer Poems by Famous Poets

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...En la redonda 
encrucijada,
seis doncellas
bailan.
Tres de carne
y tres de plata.
Los sue?os de ayer las buscan
pero las tiene abrazadas
un Polifemo de oro.
?La guitarra!...Read more of this...
by García Lorca, Federico



...unedin, take it

Hold it hard and fast its light

Is leaping it is freedom’s

Touchstone and firestone.





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Eir, Ayer or Aire

I’ll still be there

Your wanderings off course

Old Ea, Old Eye, Dead Eye

Make no difference to me.

Eg-an island - is Aire’s

True source, names

Not places matter

With the risings

Of a river

Ea land-by-water

I’ll make my own way

Free, going down river

To the far-off sea.





32



Poetry is my business, my affair.

My cri-de-coeur, j...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry
...mpulse to run against "the walls of our cage," 
though "perfectly, absolutely useless," was not to be 
dismissed. A. J. Ayer, one of Oxford's ablest minds, 
was puzzled. If logic cannot prove a nonsensical 
conclusion, why didn't Wittgenstein abandon it, 
"along with the rest of metaphysics, as not worth 
serious attention, except perhaps for sociologists"? 

8. 

Because God does not reveal himself in this world, and 
"the value of this work," Wittgenstein wrote, "is that 
i...Read more of this...
by Lehman, David

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