“All that is personal soon rots unless it is packed in ice or salt.” Yeats
Poet Mark Doty says of this, “Of course the ice and salt [Yeats] meant was the power of form, the preservative element of language, which can hold a moment from the past, allow us to return to it, and allow us to give it to someone else.”
And for you? Ice? Or salt?
Nice quote and post. Yeats is SO heavy.
Salt – I’m so sick of ice right now, and I like pickles.
No ice for me, I’m tired of being cold. Thanks for sharing the bit of Yeats!
Hard to choose, but I think I might have to take the ice.
I’m going down a moodle path considering what would happen using both ice and salt. What a mess. LOL.
Nice blog – will stop by again.
Dani
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Ice AND salt, I guess that makes good ice cream!