<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>White Moments</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE best of life, what is it but white moments?<br>Those swift illuminations when we see<br>The flying shadows on the fragrant meadows<br>As God beholds them from eternity.<br>White moments, when the bliss of being worships,<br>And fear and shame are heretics that burn<br>In holy fire of exquisite desire<br>For love's surrender and for love's return.<br>White moments, when a Power above the artist<br>Catches his plodding chisel, sets it free,<br>And from each urgent stroke there springs emergent<br>The wayward grace that laughs at industry.<br>White moments, when the drowsing soul, sense-muffled,<br>Is stung awake by some keen arrow-flight<br>And rends the bestial, claiming its celestial<br>Succession in the lineage of light.<br>White moments, when the spirit, long confronted<br>By all the bitter formulæ of fate,<br>Inveterate romancer, finds its answer<br>In some mysterious faith inviolate.<br>White moments, when the silence steals on sorrow,<br>And in that hush the heart becomes aware<br>Of wings that brood it, visions that seclude it<br>Forevermore from folly, fear and care.<br>The best of life, what is it but white moments?<br>Freedoms that break the chain and fling the load,<br>Irradiations, ardors, consecrations,<br>— The starry shrines along our pilgrim road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Lee+Bates">Katharine Lee Bates</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=428599" data-title="White Moments de Katharine Lee Bates" data-description="THE best of life, what is it but white moments? Those swift illuminations when we see The flying shadows on the fragrant meadows As God beholds them from eternity. White moments, when the bliss of being worships, And fear and shame are heretics th..."></div> </div> </div>

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