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"How the clock moves on, relentlessly,
with such assurance that it eats the years.
The days are small and transitory grapes,
the months grow faded, taken out of time.
It fades, it falls away, the moment, fired
by that implacable artillery -
and suddenly, only a year is left to us,
a month, a day, and death turns up in the diary."
— Feb 23, 2021 01:13AM
with such assurance that it eats the years.
The days are small and transitory grapes,
the months grow faded, taken out of time.
It fades, it falls away, the moment, fired
by that implacable artillery -
and suddenly, only a year is left to us,
a month, a day, and death turns up in the diary."
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Jibran
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"What we know is so little,
and what we presume so much,
so slowly do we learn
that we ask questions, then die.
Better for us to keep our pride
for the city of the dead
on the day of the departed,
and there, when the wind blows through
the holes in your skull,
it will unveil to you such mysteries,
whispering the truth to you
through the spaces that were your ears."
— Feb 22, 2021 11:34AM
and what we presume so much,
so slowly do we learn
that we ask questions, then die.
Better for us to keep our pride
for the city of the dead
on the day of the departed,
and there, when the wind blows through
the holes in your skull,
it will unveil to you such mysteries,
whispering the truth to you
through the spaces that were your ears."
Jibran
is on page 87 of 304
"I returned home, much older
after crossing the world.
Now I question nobody.
But I know less every day."
— Feb 21, 2021 02:55AM
after crossing the world.
Now I question nobody.
But I know less every day."
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Feb 23, 2021 04:42AM
Lovely excerpt, Jibran. I was just checking your shelves, and you've read a fair bit of Neruda, one of your Favourite Authors. I've started to get into poetry (Rumi was fantastic), and he seems like someone you have to check out, too...which collections do you think are good ones to start on?
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Hi Junta, I can readily recommend Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair as the starting point. Neruda is at his best in these poems, with the full range of his imagistic magic on display. After that you can read any of his collections to get the full scope of the poetical world he creates, and its beautiful.Happy reading!
Thanks for that, Jibran, that's the book of his I had on my to-read, it's definitely up there on my to-procure poetry books list!
