<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410465" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Makers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can remember back to the first poets, <br>The greatest ones, greater even than Orpheus? <br>No one has remembered that far back <br>Or now considers, among the artifacts, <br>And bones and cantilevered inference <br>The past is made of, those first and greatest poets, <br>So lofty and disdainful of renown <br>They left us not a name to know them by. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were the ones that in whatever tongue <br>Worded the world, that were the first to say <br>Star, water, stone, that said the visible <br>And made it bring invisibles to view <br>In wind and time and change, and in the mind <br>Itself that minded the hitherto idiot world <br>And spoke the speechless world and sang the towers <br>Of the city into the astonished sky. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were the first great listeners, attuned <br>To interval, relationship, and scale, <br>The first to say above, beneath, beyond, <br>Conjurors with love, death, sleep, with bread and wine, <br>Who having uttered vanished from the world <br>Leaving no memory but the marvelous <br>Magical elements, the breathing shapes <br>And stops of breath we build our Babels of.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</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=410465" data-title="The Makers de Howard Nemerov" data-description="Who can remember back to the first poets, The greatest ones, greater even than Orpheus? No one has remembered that far back Or now considers, among the artifacts, And bones and cantilevered inference The past is made of, those first and great..."></div> </div> </div>

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