<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=453850" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nevertheless</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">you've seen a strawberry<br>that's had a struggle; yet<br>was, where the fragments met,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a hedgehog or a star-<br>fish for the multitude<br>of seeds. What better food</div><div style="margin:10px 0">than apple seeds - the fruit<br>within the fruit - locked in<br>like counter-curved twin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">hazelnuts? Frost that kills<br>the little rubber-plant -<br>leaves of kok-sagyyz-stalks, can't</div><div style="margin:10px 0">harm the roots; they still grow <br>in frozen ground. Once where<br>there was a prickley-pear - </div><div style="margin:10px 0">leaf clinging to a barbed wire,<br>a root shot down to grow<br>in earth two feet below;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as carrots from mandrakes<br>or a ram's-horn root some-<br>times. Victory won't come</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to me unless I go<br>to it; a grape tendril<br>ties a knot in knots till</div><div style="margin:10px 0">knotted thirty times - so<br>the bound twig that's under-<br>gone and over-gone, can't stir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weak overcomes its<br>menace, the strong over-<br>comes itself. What is there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like fortitude! What sap<br>went through that little thread<br>to make the cherry red!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marianne+Moore">Marianne Moore</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=453850" data-title="Nevertheless de Marianne Moore" data-description="you've seen a strawberry that's had a struggle; yet was, where the fragments met, a hedgehog or a star- fish for the multitude of seeds. What better food than apple seeds - the fruit within the fruit - locked in like counter-curved twin hazelnu..."></div> </div> </div>

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