<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366810" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers. <br>Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child, <br>Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog, <br>The running dog, who paused, distending nostrils, <br>Then barked and wailed; the boy who pinched his sister, <br>The little girl who sang the song from Twelfth Night, <br>As if she understood the wind and rain, <br>The dog who moaned, hearing the violins in concert. <br>—O I am sad when I see dogs or children! <br>For they are strangers, they are Shakespearean. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Tell us, Freud, can it be that lovely children <br>Have merely ugly dreams of natural functions? <br>And you, too, Wordsworth, are children truly <br>Clouded with glory, learned in dark Nature? <br>The dog in humble inquiry along the ground, <br>The child who credits dreams and fears the dark, <br>Know more and less than you: they know full well <br>Nor dream nor childhood answer questions well: <br>You too are strangers, children are Shakespearean. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Regard the child, regard the animal, <br>Welcome strangers, but study daily things, <br>Knowing that heaven and hell surround us, <br>But this, this which we say before we’re sorry, <br>This which we live behind our unseen faces, <br>Is neither dream, nor childhood, neither <br>Myth, nor landscape, final, nor finished, <br>For we are incomplete and know no future, <br>And we are howling or dancing out our souls <br>In beating syllables before the curtain: <br>We are Shakespearean, we are strangers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Delmore+Schwartz">Delmore Schwartz</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=366810" data-title="Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers de Delmore Schwartz" data-description="Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers. Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child, Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog, The running dog, who paused, distending nostrils, Then barked and wailed; the boy who pinched his sister, T..."></div> </div> </div>

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