<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367955" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Illustrious Ancestors</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Rav<br>of Northern White Russia declined,<br>in his youth, to learn the<br>language of birds, because<br>the extraneous did not interest him; nevertheless<br>when he grew old it was found<br>he understood them anyway, having<br>listened well, and as it is said, 'prayed<br>          with the bench and the floor.' He used<br>what was at hand--as did<br>Angel Jones of Mold, whose meditations<br>were sewn into coats and britches.<br>          Well, I would like to make,<br>thinking some line still taut between me and them,<br>poems direct as what the birds said,<br>hard as a floor, sound as a bench,<br>mysterious as the silence when the tailor<br>would pause with his needle in the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denise+Levertov">Denise Levertov</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=367955" data-title="Illustrious Ancestors de Denise Levertov" data-description="The Rav of Northern White Russia declined, in his youth, to learn the language of birds, because the extraneous did not interest him; nevertheless when he grew old it was found he understood them anyway, having listened well, and as it is said, 'p..."></div> </div> </div>

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