<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428451" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Going to School</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What shall I teach in the vivid afternoon<br>With the sun warming the blackboard and a slip<br>Of cloud catching my eye?<br>Only the cones and sections of the moon.<br>Out of some flaking page of scholarship,<br>Only some foolish heresy<br>To counteract the authority of prose.<br>The ink runs freely and the dry chalk flows<br>Into the silent night of seven slates<br>Where I create the universe as if<br>It grew out of some old rabbinic glyph<br>Or hung upon the necessity of Yeats.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O dry imaginations, drink this dust<br>That grays the room and powders my coat sleeve,<br>For in this shaft of light<br>I dance upon the intellectual crust<br>Of our own age and hold this make-believe<br>Like holy-work before your sight.<br>This is the list of books that time has burned,<br>These are the lines that only poets have learned,<br>The frame of dreams, the symbols that dilate;<br>Yet when I turn from this dark exercise<br>I meet your bright and world-considering eyes<br>That build and build and never can create.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Karl+Shapiro">Karl Shapiro</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=428451" data-title="Going to School de Karl Shapiro" data-description="What shall I teach in the vivid afternoon With the sun warming the blackboard and a slip Of cloud catching my eye? Only the cones and sections of the moon. Out of some flaking page of scholarship, Only some foolish heresy To counteract the authori..."></div> </div> </div>

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