Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
"far on the ringing plains of windy Troy" (from Tennyson's Ulysses) - for no better reason than the music of it, and the evocativeness, indeed the POETRY. And that it can be taken out of context and still be every bit as wonderful. (This does not mean Tennyson's my favourite poet, not even close - but when he's good, he's marvellous.)