The writing of poems

I understood that the art of memory that he had was a thing of the past, that he was amongst the last of his kind. The writing of the poems was only a defence against time, a shoring up of the bank to save the words from passing. I would never be such a man as he, and whatever of poetry I would know would be through writing.

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Encounter the bards of the fourteenth century. Sir Gawain and the Green Maiden

Image: Bardic meeting at Caernarfon, c.1894, National Trust