<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373907" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robert Davidson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.<br>If I saw a soul that was strong<br>I wounded its pride and devoured its strength.<br>The shelters of friendship knew my cunning,<br>For where I could steal a friend I did so.<br>And wherever I could enlarge my power<br>By undermining ambition, I did so,<br>Thus to make smooth my own.<br>And to triumph over other souls,<br>Just to assert and prove my superior strength,<br>Was with me a delight,<br>The keen exhilaration of soul gymnastics.<br>Devouring souls, I should have lived forever.<br>But their undigested remains bred in me a deadly nephritis,<br>With fear, restlessness, sinking spirits,<br>Hatred, suspicion, vision disturbed.<br>I collapsed at last with a shriek.<br>Remember the acorn;<br>It does not devour other acorns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</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=373907" data-title="Robert Davidson de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men. If I saw a soul that was strong I wounded its pride and devoured its strength. The shelters of friendship knew my cunning, For where I could steal a friend I did so. And wherever I could enlarge ..."></div> </div> </div>

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