no man,if men are gods;but if gods must
be men,the sometimes only man is this
(most common,for each anguish is his grief;
and,for his joy is more than joy,most rare)
a fiend,if fiends speak truth;if angels burn
by their own genereous completely light,
an angel;or(as various worlds he'll spurn
rather than fail immeasurable fate)
coward,clown,traitor,idiot,dreamer,beast --
such was a poet and shall be and is
--who'll solve the depths of horror to defend
a sunbeam's architecture with his life:
and carve immortal jungles of despair
to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
by e.e. cummings
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Clothes Do But Cheat and Cozen Us by Robert Herrick
Away with silks, away with lawn,
Iʼll have no scenes or curtains drawn;
Give me my mistress as she is,
Dressed in her naked simplicities:
For as my heart, even so my eye
Is won with flesh, not drapery.
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