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Stewart Burke's avatar

To my mind Shmuel ha Nagid was one of the greatest poets of all time. He summarized life and its challenges and pleasures as well or better than anyone: "I have nothing in this world except the hour in which I am: it pauses, then like a cloud moves on."

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John Martin's avatar

I preferred the second one. Perhaps because its subject was more appealing to me.

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