<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367977" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>St. Peter and the Angel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delivered out of raw continual pain,<br>smell of darkness, groans of those others<br>to whom he was chained--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">unchained, and led<br>past the sleepers,<br>door after door silently opening--<br>out!<br>     And along a long street's<br>majestic emptiness under the moon:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one hand on the angel's shoulder, one<br>feeling the air before him,<br>eyes open but fixed...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And not till he saw the angel had left him,<br>alone and free to resume<br>the ecstatic, dangerous, wearisome roads of<br>what he had still to do,<br>not till then did he recognize<br>this was no dream. More frightening<br>than arrest, than being chained to his warders:<br>he could hear his own footsteps suddenly.<br>Had the angel's feet<br>made any sound? He could not recall.<br>No one had missed him, no one was in pursuit.<br>He himself must be<br>the key, now, to the next door,<br>the next terrors of freedom and joy.</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=367977" data-title="St. Peter and the Angel de Denise Levertov" data-description="Delivered out of raw continual pain, smell of darkness, groans of those others to whom he was chained-- unchained, and led past the sleepers, door after door silently opening-- out!      And along a long street's majestic emptiness under the..."></div> </div> </div>

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