<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366814" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For The One Who Would Not Take His Life In His Hands</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Athlete, virtuoso,<br>Training for happiness,<br>Bend arm and knee, and seek<br>The body's sharp distress,<br>For pain is pleasure's cost,<br>Denial is route<br>To speech before the millions<br>Or personal with the flute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ape and great Achilles,<br>Heavy with their fate,<br>Batter doors down, strike<br>Small children at the gate,<br>Driven by love to this,<br>As knock-kneed Hegel said,<br>To seek with a sword their peace,<br>That the child may be taken away<br>From the hurly-burly and fed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ladies and Gentlemen, said<br>The curious Socrates,<br>I have asked, What is this life<br>But a childermass,<br>As Abraham recognized,<br>A working with the knife<br>At animal, maid and stone<br>Until we have cut down<br>All but the soul alone:<br>Through hate we guard our love,<br>And its distinction's known.</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=366814" data-title="For The One Who Would Not Take His Life In His Hands de Delmore Schwartz" data-description="Athlete, virtuoso, Training for happiness, Bend arm and knee, and seek The body's sharp distress, For pain is pleasure's cost, Denial is route To speech before the millions Or personal with the flute. The ape and great Achilles, Heavy with their ..."></div> </div> </div>

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