<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Actor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O man, with your wonderful dower, <br> O woman, with genius and grace, <br>You can teach the whole world with your power, <br> If you are but worthy the place.<br>The stage is a force and a factor<br> In moulding the thought of the day, <br>If only the heart of the actor<br> Is high as the theme of the play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No discourse or sermon can reach us<br> Through feeling to reason like you; <br>No author can stir us and teach us<br> With lessons as subtle and true.<br>Your words and your gestures obeying<br> We weep or rejoice with your part, <br>And the player, behind all his playing, <br> He ought to be great at his art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No matter what role you are giving, <br> No matter what skill you betray, <br>The everyday life you are living<br> Is certain to colour the play.<br>The thoughts we call secret and hidden<br> Are creatures of malice, in fact; <br>They steal forth unseen and unbidden, <br> And permeate motive and act.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The genius that shines like a comet<br> Fills only one part of God’s plan, <br>If the lesson the word derives from it<br> Is marred by the life of the man.<br>Be worthy your work if you love it; <br> The king should be fit for the crown; <br>Stand high as your art, or above it, <br> And make us look up and not down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</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=384593" data-title="The Actor de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="O man, with your wonderful dower, O woman, with genius and grace, You can teach the whole world with your power, If you are but worthy the place. The stage is a force and a factor In moulding the thought of the day, If only the heart of the..."></div> </div> </div>

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