<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361275" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Writer's Hand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is your want, perpetual invalid<br>Whose fist is always beating on my breast's<br>Bone wall, incurable dictator of my house<br>And breaker of its peace? What is your will,<br>Obscure uneasy sprite : where must I run,<br>What must I seize, to win<br>A brief respite from your repining cries?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it a star, the passionate short spark<br>Produced by friction with another's flesh<br>You ache more darkly after. Is it power :<br>To snap restriction's leash, to leap<br>Like bloodhounds on the enemy? There is no grip<br>Can crush the fate you fight. Or is it to escape<br>Into the dream-perspectives maps and speed create?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You never listen, disillusion's dumb<br>To your unheeding ear. But see my hand,<br>The only army to enforce your claim<br>Upon life's hostile land : five pale, effete<br>Aesthetic-looking fingers, whose chief feat<br>Is to trace lines like these across a page :<br>What small relief can they bring to your siege!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Gascoyne">David Gascoyne</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=361275" data-title="The Writer's Hand de David Gascoyne" data-description="What is your want, perpetual invalid Whose fist is always beating on my breast's Bone wall, incurable dictator of my house And breaker of its peace? What is your will, Obscure uneasy sprite : where must I run, What must I seize, to win A brief res..."></div> </div> </div>

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