Mark Helprin said that complex men exact their magnanimity by the simplest means. I only have simple means, and maybe they will grow into bug-luscious blossoms of enchanting magnanimity. Here is a wonderful poem by the great Christian poet Tyler Blanski: Kiss a girl; Spin the world; Watch squirrels.
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One of My Favorites
25
Nov 2008
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is […]
Category: death, E.E. Cummings, feelings, kiss, Poetry
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Ode to a Nightingale
22
Nov 2008
Ode To A Nightingale ~John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drainsOne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,But being too happy in thine happiness,That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,In […]
Category: Keats, Nightingale, Ode, Poetry
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