<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=36985" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Grant You Ample Leave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I grant you ample leave<br>To use the hoary formula 'I am'<br>Naming the emptiness where thought is not;<br>But fill the void with definition, 'I'<br>Will be no more a datum than the words<br>You link false inference with, the 'Since' & 'so'<br>That, true or not, make up the atom-whirl.<br>Resolve your 'Ego', it is all one web<br>With vibrant ether clotted into worlds:<br>Your subject, self, or self-assertive 'I'<br>Turns nought but object, melts to molecules,<br>Is stripped from naked Being with the rest<br>Of those rag-garments named the Universe.<br>Or if, in strife to keep your 'Ego' strong<br>You make it weaver of the etherial light,<br>Space, motion, solids & the dream of Time --<br>Why, still 'tis Being looking from the dark,<br>The core, the centre of your consciousness,<br>That notes your bubble-world: sense, pleasure, pain,<br>What are they but a shifting otherness,<br>Phantasmal flux of moments? --"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Eliot">George Eliot</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=36985" data-title="I Grant You Ample Leave de George Eliot" data-description=""I grant you ample leave/To use the hoary formula 'I am'/Naming the emptiness where thought is not;/But fill the void with definition, 'I'/Will be no more a datum than the words/You link false inference with, the 'Since' & 'so'/That, true or not, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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