<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366851" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Foggy, Foggy Blue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a young man, I loved to write poems <br>And I called a spade a spade <br>And the only only thing that made me sing <br>Was to lift the masks at the masquerade. <br>I took them off my own face, <br>I took them off others too <br>And the only only wrong in all my song <br>Was the view that I knew what was true. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now I am older and tireder too <br>And the tasks with the masks are quite trying. <br>I’d gladly gladly stop if I only only knew <br>A better way to keep from lying, <br>And not get nervous and blue <br>When I said something quite untrue: <br>I looked all around and all over <br>To find something else to do: <br>I tried to be less romantic <br>I tried to be less starry-eyed too: <br>But I only got mixed up and frantic <br>Forgetting what was false and what was true. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But tonight I am going to the masked ball, <br>Because it has occurred to me <br>That the masks are more true than the faces: <br>—Perhaps this too is poetry? <br>I no longer yearn to be naïve and stern <br>And masked balls fascinate me: <br>Now that I know that most falsehoods are true <br>Perhaps I can join the charade? <br>This is, at any rate, my new and true view: <br>Let live and believe, I say. <br>The only only thing is to believe in everything: <br>It’s more fun and safer that way!</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=366851" data-title="The Foggy, Foggy Blue de Delmore Schwartz" data-description="When I was a young man, I loved to write poems And I called a spade a spade And the only only thing that made me sing Was to lift the masks at the masquerade. I took them off my own face, I took them off others too And the only only wrong in..."></div> </div> </div>

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