<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410476" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Writing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cursive crawl, the squared-off characters <br>these by themselves delight, even without <br>a meaning, in a foreign language, in <br>Chinese, for instance, or when skaters curve <br>all day across the lake, scoring their white <br>records in ice. Being intelligible, <br>these winding ways with their audacities <br>and delicate hesitations, they become <br>miraculous, so intimately, out there <br>at the pen’s point or brush’s tip, do world <br>and spirit wed. The small bones of the wrist <br>balance against great skeletons of stars <br>exactly; the blind bat surveys his way <br>by echo alone. Still, the point of style <br>is character. The universe induces <br>a different tremor in every hand, from the <br>check-forger’s to that of the Emperor <br>Hui Tsung, who called his own calligraphy <br>the ‘Slender Gold.’ A nervous man <br>writes nervously of a nervous world, and so on. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Miraculous. It is as though the world <br>were a great writing. Having said so much, <br>let us allow there is more to the world <br>than writing: continental faults are not <br>bare convoluted fissures in the brain. <br>Not only must the skaters soon go home; <br>also the hard inscription of their skates <br>is scored across the open water, which long <br>remembers nothing, neither wind nor wake.</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=410476" data-title="Writing de Howard Nemerov" data-description="The cursive crawl, the squared-off characters these by themselves delight, even without a meaning, in a foreign language, in Chinese, for instance, or when skaters curve all day across the lake, scoring their white records in ice. Being intel..."></div> </div> </div>

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