Saturday, November 09, 2024

Said to be Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Prof. Michael Aris's favorite poem--"When you are old and grey and full of sleep."

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43283/when-you-are-old
Yeats wrote it for Maude Gonne, the Irish activist.
I certainly like this poem too.

Maybe I should go to Vienna--but not right now--I've been to London, was a child near there, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki,Gottenberg,Berlin,Amsterdam. I've been to quite a few places.

Istanbul,passing through Teheran, Rome, lots of Thai places,Bali,Jogjakarta--but never to Vienna nor Salzburg--should go, maybe after 2028 i...