Showing posts with label Marya Mannes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marya Mannes. Show all posts

April 02, 2015

Christopher Hitchens on partition

W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden wrote, "Two peoples fanatically at odds, With their different diets and incompatible gods." Marya Mannes wrote in 1959 
"Borders are scratched across the 
hearts of men

By strangers with a calm, judicial 
pen,

And when the borders bleed we 
watch with dread

The lines of ink across the map 
turn red."
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