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Article |  Poetry

Fire Light

All of us at Humanum Review would like to wish our readers a beautiful, joy-filled Christmas. May the Christ-Child bless you and yours! On this occasion we would like to offer you a gift of poetry from James Matthew Wilson's newest collection. 

The holy settlement of hours,
    Whose silence now descends like sleep,
    Who gathers us within its keep,
    And lets alone the hearth flames leap,
Affirms, for now, the only powers
Will be those we have claimed as ours...

Article |  Poetry

T.S. Eliot and Temporal Eternity

Time rules over man. It propels him through life, which is short when compared with eternity, and ushers him through life’s events, which often seem inconsequential beside history’s kings and wars. All of man’s experiences exist in and through time, and the means by which man communicates these experiences and thoughts—language—is also temporally bound. The nature of a novel, a poem, a sentence, or even a word, signals its mortality. It exists in time; it begins, and it ends.

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