marjoram_blues wrote:Walker wrote:I think it’s from the documentary itself and not a movie or published poem.
From what I read, Burton tells the story that he, Dylan Thomas, and someone else were having a conversation and the topic of the greatest poem arose. The words that Burton recites are Thomas’ contribution, and it sounds like he just spoke them off the cuff. Burton declared it the greatest poem.
He does a good job of selling it.
That’s all I found after a brief search. Might be true, might be false.
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Well, that sounds good to me. Impressive after a 'brief' search. Where did you find it, pray tell ?
“Burton was fond of storytelling and would frequently rhapsodise about Thomas and other poets of his acquaintance such as Louis MacNeise. On one occasion they were drinking together after a BBC recording session. Thomas asked those present what they considered to be the most powerful and moving piece of poetry in the English language.
“Burton recited a soliloquy from Shakespeare – possibly ‘to be or not to be’ from Hamlet. MacNeice offered up some of his own poetry. Thomas silenced them both.
“‘This,’ he said, ‘is the best poem in the English language,’ and then spoke the following lines:
“I am.
Thou art.
He, she, it is.
We are.
You are.
They are.
“Sixty years later it is impossible to argue with the purity of his choice. Burton knew it, too: he told that story until the end of his days.”
Under Milkwood revisited: The Wales of Dylan Thomas
By Mark Davis, Tony Earnshaw
https://books.google.com/books?id=YKqlB ... &q&f=false
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Non-duality. The designation of each pronoun simply is, rather than simply is something else, as in, what do you mean?