Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew.
— Christopher Logue‘s poem written in 1961 or 1962 for an exhibition of Guillaume Apollinaire‘s work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Reprinted in 1968 for a festival marking the fiftieth anniversary of Apollinaire’s death. Available in Logue’s Ode to the Dodo: Poems from 1953 to 1978, (1981), p. 96. Cited by David L. Miller in his essay “At the Edges of the Round Table: Jung, Religion, and Eranos”.
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