<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366830" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Philology Recapitulates Ontology, Poetry Is Ontology</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faithful to your commandments, o consciousness, o</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Holy bird of words soaring ever whether to nothingness or<br> to inconceivable fulfillment slowly:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still I follow you, awkward as that dandy of ontology<br> and as awkward as his albatross and as</div><div style="margin:10px 0">another dandy of ontology before him, another shepherd<br> and watchdog of being, the one who</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Talked forever of forever as if forever of having been<br> and being an ancient mariner,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hesitant forever as if forever were the albatross </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hung round his neck by the seven seas of the seven muses,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and with as little conclusion, since being never concludes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Studying the sibilance and the splashing of the seas and of<br> seeing and of being's infinite seas,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Staring at the ever-blue and the far small stars and <br> the faint white endless curtain of the<br> twinkling play's endless seasons.</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=366830" data-title="Philology Recapitulates Ontology, Poetry Is Ontology de Delmore Schwartz" data-description="Faithful to your commandments, o consciousness, o Holy bird of words soaring ever whether to nothingness or to inconceivable fulfillment slowly: And still I follow you, awkward as that dandy of ontology and as awkward as his albatross and as ..."></div> </div> </div>

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