<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Useless Ones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poets should not reason:<br>Let them sing!<br>Argument is treason —<br>Bells should ring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Statements none, nor questions;<br>Gnomic words.<br>Spirit-cries, suggestions,<br>Like the birds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He may use deduction<br>Who must preach;<br>He may praise instruction<br>Who must teach;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the poet duly<br>Fills his part<br>When the song bursts truly<br>From his heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For no purpose springing;<br>For no pelf:<br>He must do the singing<br>For itself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not in lines austerely<br>Let him build;<br>Not the surface merely<br>Let him gild.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fearless, uninvited,<br>Like a spring.<br>Opal-words, inlighted,<br>Let him sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As the leaf grows sunward<br>Song must grow;<br>As the stream flows onward<br>Song must flow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Useless? Ay, — for measure;<br>Roses die,<br>But their breath gives pleasure —<br>God knows why!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Boyle+O%27Reilly">John Boyle O'Reilly</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=419078" data-title="The Useless Ones de John Boyle O'Reilly" data-description="Poets should not reason: Let them sing! Argument is treason — Bells should ring. Statements none, nor questions; Gnomic words. Spirit-cries, suggestions, Like the birds. He may use deduction Who must preach; He may praise instruction Who must ..."></div> </div> </div>

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