William Soutar Quote

What is this poetry? A mortal mind
Made visible; a caged bird?
Nay more: it is a spiritleft behind
Nailed by the piercing word.


On a poem, XC Brief Words, The Moray Press, Edinburgh 1935.


What is this poetry? A mortal mind Made visible; a caged bird? Nay more: it is a spiritleft behind Nailed by the piercing word.

What is this poetry? A mortal mind Made visible; a caged bird? Nay more: it is a spiritleft behind Nailed by the piercing word.

What is this poetry? A mortal mind Made visible; a caged bird? Nay more: it is a spiritleft behind Nailed by the piercing word.

What is this poetry? A mortal mind Made visible; a caged bird? Nay more: it is a spiritleft behind Nailed by the piercing word.