<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459869" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This peach my teacher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This peach<br>that I’ve just eaten, <br>been graced by, <br>been blessed by, <br>been taught by, <br>been transformed by…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it’s as if some<br>Messenger of the Gods<br>had arrived, stopwatch in hand, <br>saying, everything holds in perfection<br>but a little moment -<br>as William Shakespeare noted: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so I’m going to arrange things so that<br>as the stopwatch ticks out<br>ten seconds to that moment, <br>you’ll reach out your hand to the fruitbowl, <br>take it, feel its yielding softness under velvet skin, <br>cut it carefully twice through the poles, <br>once equatorially… and as it falls apart, <br>spear one segment; eat…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this peach<br>was full of what even Rilke<br>could say no more than, peachness..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it was a living proof of Plato: <br>its perfection taught me<br>where essence meets experience, <br>where actuality meets the ideal of peach; <br>where a singular perfection speaks of<br>all perfections; where perfection<br>leaves from perfection, naught else but perfect…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how could such a perfect thing<br>have been invented by one<br>who does not love? Who is not love? <br>This peach is love itself, and I the worshipper<br>must needs make of myself a living God<br>to whom to kneel, to offer praise and gratitude<br>for all perfection known..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">this peach my teacher.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459869" data-title="This peach my teacher de Michael Shepherd" data-description="This peach that I’ve just eaten, been graced by, been blessed by, been taught by, been transformed by… it’s as if some Messenger of the Gods had arrived, stopwatch in hand, saying, everything holds in perfection but a little moment - a..."></div> </div> </div>

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