<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124750" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Am Not a Man who Does Things</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are so many of you, men who do things,<br>everywhere in the streets, under the sky, roofs.<br>Only I am here purposeless, infamous.<br>only good for drowning in water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I am waiting, have been waiting for a long time<br>for some wholly good, wholly honest passerby to say to him:<br>Oh, don‘t turn and look at me,<br>Oh, don‘t condemn my immobility.<br>I grow among you, but shaded by my hands<br>the mystic fruit ripens in another place.<br>Don‘t curse me, don‘t curse me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friend of deep things,<br>companion of silence,<br>I play above the doing.<br>Sometimes with a flute of ancestral bone<br>I sens myself to death as a song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Questioning, my brother looks at me,<br>astonished, my sister meets me,<br>but wrapped aroud my feet<br>the snake listens to me and understands me better,<br>the snake with its eyes open forever<br>to wisdom far away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lucian+Blaga">Lucian Blaga</a> from <i>In the Great Passage (În marea trecere)</i>, translated by Roy MacGregor-Hastie<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124750" data-title="I Am Not a Man who Does Things de Lucian Blaga" data-description="There are so many of you, men who do things,/everywhere in the streets, under the sky, roofs./Only I am here purposeless, infamous./only good for drowning in water./But I am waiting, have been waiting for a long time/for some wholly good, wholly h..."></div> </div> </div>

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