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Poetry |
But, it is much more than mere words -
it is food for the soul
and fire that keeps eternally butrning at the gateway of love.
It has touched my soul as well,
as it has touched countless others'
all over this kingdom of God.
The people need poetry that will be
their own secrets to keepthem awake forever,
and bathe them in the
bright-haired wave of its breathing.
Poetry can communicate
the actual quality of experience with
a subtlety and precision
unapproachable by any other means.
Poetry is not concerned with telling
with telling people what to do,
but with extending our knowlegde
of good and evil,
perhaps making the necessity for
action more urgent and its nature more clear,
but only leading us to
the point where it is possible
for us to make a rational and moral choice.
Poetry has an extra hand,
which can caress or tickle.
This hand can even clench and fight.
The hand is hot!
Take it or leave it.
"The moving finger writes;and having writ,
Moves on;nor all thy piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
............Omar Khayyam
