<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348287" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Still</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said I will find what is lowly<br>and put the roots of my identity<br>down there:<br>each day I'll wake up<br>and find the lowly nearby,<br>a handy focus and reminder,<br>a ready measure of my significance,<br>the voice by which I would be heard,<br>the wills, the kinds of selfishness<br>I could<br>freely adopt as my own:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but though I have looked everywhere,<br>I can find nothing<br>to give myself to:<br>everything is</div><div style="margin:10px 0">magnificent with existence, is in <br>surfeit of glory:<br>nothing is diminished,<br>nothing has been diminished for me:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said what is more lowly than the grass:<br>ah, underneath,<br>a ground-crust of dry-burnt moss:<br>I looked at it closely<br>and said this can be my habitat: but<br>nestling in I<br>found<br>below the brown exterior<br>green mechanisms beyond the intellect<br>awaiting resurrection in rain: so I got up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and ran saying there is nothing lowly in the universe:<br>I found a beggar:<br>he had stumps for legs: nobody was paying<br>him any attention: everybody went on by:<br>I nestled in and found his life:<br>there, love shook his body like a devastation:<br>I said<br>though I have looked everywhere<br>I can find nothing lowly<br>in the universe:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I whirled though transfigurations up and down,<br>transfigurations of size and shape and place:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">at one sudden point came still,<br>stood in wonder:<br>moss, beggar, weed, tick, pine, self, magnificent<br>with being!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archie+Randolph+Ammons">Archie Randolph Ammons</a><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=348287" data-title="Still de Archie Randolph Ammons" data-description="I said I will find what is lowly and put the roots of my identity down there: each day I'll wake up and find the lowly nearby, a handy focus and reminder, a ready measure of my significance, the voice by which I would be heard, the wills, the kind..."></div> </div> </div>

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