<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432211" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Oracle at Delphi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great Oracle, why are you staring at me,<br>do I baffle you, do I make you despair?<br>I, Americus, the American,<br>wrought from the dark in my mother long ago,<br>from the dark of ancient Europa--<br>Why are you staring at me now<br>in the dusk of our civilization--<br>Why are you staring at me<br>as if I were America itself<br>the new Empire<br>vaster than any in ancient days<br>with its electronic highways<br>carrying its corporate monoculture<br>around the world<br>And English the Latin of our days--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great Oracle, sleeping through the centuries, <br>Awaken now at last<br>And tell us how to save us from ourselves<br>and how to survive our own rulers <br>who would make a plutocracy of our democracy <br>in the Great Divide<br>between the rich and the poor<br>in whom Walt Whitman heard America singing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O long-silent Sybil, <br>you of the winged dreams, <br>Speak out from your temple of light <br>as the serious constellations <br>with Greek names<br>still stare down on us <br>as a lighthouse moves its megaphone <br>over the sea<br>Speak out and shine upon us <br>the sea-light of Greece <br>the diamond light of Greece</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far-seeing Sybil, forever hidden, <br>Come out of your cave at last <br>And speak to us in the poet's voice <br>the voice of the fourth person singular <br>the voice of the inscrutable future <br>the voice of the people mixed<br>with a wild soft laughter--<br>And give us new dreams to dream, <br>Give us new myths to live by!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+Ferlinghetti">Lawrence Ferlinghetti</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=432211" data-title="To the Oracle at Delphi de Lawrence Ferlinghetti" data-description="Great Oracle, why are you staring at me, do I baffle you, do I make you despair? I, Americus, the American, wrought from the dark in my mother long ago, from the dark of ancient Europa-- Why are you staring at me now in the dusk of our civilizatio..."></div> </div> </div>

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