<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366813" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Faust In Old Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Poet and veteran of childhood, look!<br>See in me the obscene, for you have love,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For you have hatred, you, you must be judge,<br>Deliver judgement, Delmore Schwartz.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well-known wishes have been to war,<br>The vicious mouth has chewed the vine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The patient crab beneath the shirt<br>Has charmed such interests as Indies meant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have walked within and seen each sea,<br>The fish that flies, the broken burning bird,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Born again, beginning again, my breast!<br>Purple with persons like a tragic play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I have flown the cloud and fallen down,<br>Plucked Venus, sneering at her moan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I took the train that takes away remorse;<br>I cast down every king like Socrates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knocked each nut to find the meat;<br>A worm was there and not a mint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Metaphysicians could have told me this,<br>But each learns for himself, as in the kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Polonius I poked, not him<br>To whom aspires spire and hymn,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who succors children and the very poor;<br>I pierced the pompous Premier, not Jesus Christ,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I picked Polonius and Moby Dick,<br>the ego bloomed into an octopus.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now come I to the exhausted West at last;<br>I know my vanity, my nothingness,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now I float will-less in despair's dead sea,<br>Every man my enemy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spontaneous, I have too much to say,<br>And what I say will no one not old see:</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>If we could love one another, it would be well. <br>But as it is, I am sorry for the whole world, myself <br>apart. My heart is full of memory and desire, and in <br>its last nervousness, there is pity for those I have <br>touched, but only hatred and contempt for myself.&quot;</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=366813" data-title="Faust In Old Age de Delmore Schwartz" data-description="&quot;Poet and veteran of childhood, look! See in me the obscene, for you have love, For you have hatred, you, you must be judge, Deliver judgement, Delmore Schwartz. Well-known wishes have been to war, The vicious mouth has chewed the vine. Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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