There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides… - Anne Carson

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There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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And now time is rushing towards them

where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces,

night at their back.

...some hours later they were down
at the railroad tracks
standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead
scattering drops of itself.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

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