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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WEIL, SIMONE (1909-1943) Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABSENT FROM DANCES, 1925, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Black, byzantine eyes %seize us like falcons Last Line: Grieve me ... Being excluded - truth %reserved for genius Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) AGAINST CONSOLATION, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lecturer is talking Last Line: Beautifully innocent of any meaning Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Reality; Weil, Simone (1909-1943) AGENT, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: How do you say her? Last Line: To us, a way away, %unavailing Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) AIRDRILL, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Crisis in '32 becomes depression and simone Last Line: Rapid acceleration appropriate to it - alien to her, %violently bending to service her body clinging Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) AT HOME, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: So, what do you see from thee high windows Last Line: Told the neighbors %our parents starve us Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) BEGINNING WITH A PHRASE FROM SIMONE WEIL, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There is no better time than the present when wehave lost everything. It doesn't mean rain falling Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943); Time; Loss BENCH-HAND: THE FAMOUS 'REAL LIFE', by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Screams of metal - jams Last Line: Of what was to come never ceased %oppressing me, until saturday afternoon Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) BLOOM AS BLUE GRAPES, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Hours of intelligence, hours of labor Last Line: In our muscles ripples in rows %we have planted. Or harvest Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) COMIC PROGRESSION, 1939-, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: 1. Send me. I'll organize a front line corps Last Line: 14. She asks to see a priest Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) CONSENT, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Andre: she ate very little Last Line: This does not distress me at all. The mine of gold %is inexhaustible Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) COUNTERWEIGHT, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Activist- %yet she subscribes to the world Last Line: Considered her an enemy, %because she could see through them very quickly Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) DE BEAUVOIR, FR. MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: While preparing to enter the normale, she was taking the same Last Line: No less peremptorily, that the problem was not to make men happy, %but to find the reason for their Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) DEFILEMENT, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Ice to water, to stream - a structual Last Line: -to eat %into souls? To possess them? Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) DIGNITY, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Dear albertine (1935) %what working in a factory meant for m Last Line: Breaks your vitality, and consequently your capacity to work Variant Title(s): My Dear Albertin Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) EXCUSED FOR ILLNESS (2), by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Only days at renault Last Line: You say, what must be very %ancient hymns of heart-rending sadness Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) FIG TREE, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: One is genius itself - the other beauty Last Line: Fig tree: naturally %impotent and cursed for her impotence Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) FOR SIMONE WEIL, by HILDA MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you / perhaps / write for the poor Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) FOR SIMONE WEIL, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you %perhaps %write for the poor Last Line: The deeper almost blue %which moves most often %in bending Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) GERTRUDE STEIN, PARIS, 1925, FR. THE MAKING..., by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Many women have at some time resisting in them .... Patient Last Line: Sensitive being in them. That will certainly be helping to make a %long book interesting Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) GUSTAVE THIBON, HOW SIMONE WEIL APPEARED TO ME, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: I can still hear simone's voice in the deserted Last Line: So weak and flat, intelligence in flashes %that can't be strung together. Not pearls Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) GUSTAVE THIBON, HOW SIMONE WEIL APPEARED TO ME, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: We are all %bargaining with heaven Last Line: But still, it is %too hard for me, that saying Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) GUSTAVE THIBON, HOW SIMONE WEIL APPEARED TO ME, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Kisses and embraces disgusted her Last Line: Spontaneity, but %I shall certainly also buy a few books Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) GUSTAVE THIBON, HOW SIMONE WEIL APPEARED TO ME, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Her magnificent eyes alone Last Line: Invincible reserve Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) GUSTAVE THIBON, HOW SIMONE WEIL APPEARED TO ME, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: I took her on to please my old friend, father perrin Last Line: And test the great realities? Like spinoza, %still searching for a sign in the refusal of all signs Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) HOW IMPERATIVES ENTER THE BODY, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: From a bed in middlesex hospital, concealing Last Line: We deal with industrial patients here %and feel she will not settle down with us.' Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) HOW YOU ARE WITHHELD FROM ME, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Diffidence? Both of us. You raised Last Line: Lips retain the name of god - how %you are withheld, from me Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) INTACT, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Simone, laying her life in perrin's hands, has yet Last Line: Even a passing one, %sways, or tautens, the mind Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) INTERVIEW WITH ANDRE WEIL, 1973, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: The bbc: this is something of a jewish trait, one might say, this Last Line: Tized was the most unpleasant thing that could happen to a person in %a family with a jewish backgro Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) JEWS, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Them, she said, %that people held together Last Line: Pushing her food away, %blocking her baptism Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) JUSTICE, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: As justice is to disregard your strength in an unequal Last Line: To its nature, how that %snares us Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) LEARNING THE LYRE, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: What does it mean to survey Last Line: Awaiting death in prison, %learning the lyre Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) LETTERS FROM MME. WEIL TO MLLE. CHAINTREUIL, ANDRE'S TUTOR, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: This is the kind of little girl that I have come across many times, the Last Line: Do, because this simonette is a real woman and is marvelously capa- %ble of using her charm when it Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) LOVE AFFAIR, FOURTH CENTURY, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Prodigies of asceticism, athletes, champions Last Line: To leave: no teaching, no rule - a mass %of traveler's tales Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) MATHEMATICS: GALOIS, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: You write of him Last Line: Power and identity - in groups, %kernels of a new realm Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) MY NOT BURNS, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: What burns in hell? Last Line: Fire, fire consumes me. %my not burns me Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) NAMES/UGLINESS, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: They don't know love when they see it Last Line: Names: exigent, frail, audacious in desire - %more alone, even, then she knew Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) NECESSITY, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: If the sea should alter Last Line: Because the sea will part %for us Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) NEVER BUT ONE, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Manner to serve %a being: give it Last Line: How to love: asking only, %what direction Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) NUMBERBODY, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: The world stained to the bone raven blue Last Line: Feeling the absence %like a phantom heart or limb Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) ON THE WIRELESS, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: ...I would wish you always to speak the truth, even on the wireless Last Line: Tions because they are so weak from overwork and privation that any other %form of punishment would Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) PAST CENTURIES, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: To refuse to enter, when you are on the threshold Last Line: Will the human mind not run away but stay %truthful, in what's painful Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) QUALITY, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Men, retaining semen, thereby lay up Last Line: Equivalent, thirst %for milk Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) REVELATION, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: She wants. She keeps on wanting and turning Last Line: This %is a soul Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) REVOLUTION: SIMONE AT 27, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: In spain on the banks of the ebro Last Line: Was a machine. The heaviest ever %laid on that people Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) SIMONE WEIL 1909 -1940, by SEAN DUNNE Poem Source First Line: I have come to love you in photographs Last Line: No realm of words could call you back Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) SOUL LEARNS EVERYTHING FROM BODY, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: The bird forgets, %but the trap does not. Cassandran Last Line: That shudder down their whole length and are blown to the pavement %almost at once Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) STILL DARNING A SOCK, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: Simone brushed aside albertine thevenon Last Line: And in the evening, lessons with two boys, %the char work of the house Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) THERE COMES, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: If you do not fight it - if you look, just Last Line: When you cannot %not Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) TO SIMONE WEIL, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Had you forgotten god & a wild couriosity Last Line: Like a sphinx, like the land fragrant %at harvest, silent & tantalizing Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) UNCONVERTED: BEDE'S SPARROW, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: What if bede's sparrow for that instant in flight Last Line: Or, is nailed to the moon, to a shaft of pure iron, %pullingthe sea to vast swells, leaf-bone white Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) UNREGARDED SOURCE, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: To give up greatness Last Line: We do not %condemn all holocausts in the past? Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) VERTIGO/WALK ON WATER, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: The generous have overcome their anger Last Line: The laws that compel them. You can tell %by watching, while they keep their footing, which Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) WAR RATIONS CHOSEN, LONDON, 1943, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: You won't eat. Not more Last Line: And - it is nothing. %honor your resistance Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) WHEN FROM THE DEPTH, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source Last Line: Some give %their hearts to silence Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) XERES: TAKE THIS CUP, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: It is said, she would allow one Last Line: By its plot %number Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) XMAS PUDDING, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: As she dies of lung infection Last Line: It was also true andre. %true of us all Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) YOUR DEATH: WHAT IS SAID, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: The kent messenger on friday 3 september, 1943 Last Line: Not only in the middle of a life, %but at the center Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) ZEALOT IN A ZOO, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: The body is not the soul's opponent Last Line: Soar down them, the tree lives, it lives %its body and pushing, sends out roots to bring air into th Subject(s): Weil, Simone (1909-1943) |
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