<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460808" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0367 Portrait of the poet as sea-monster</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet -<br>by whom I mean<br>an ordinary human being like you or me<br>who keeps a diary<br>of the mind and heart<br>and then publishes it<br>with luck <br>and maybe sells a few -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">is a bit like one of those 'exotic' creatures<br>filmed on the ocean floor, <br>gracefully waving a hostess welcome<br>as if used to welcoming photographers<br>into its lovely home in this week's special issue<br>and such a delicate shade of pink its designer decor! -<br>but how to read it visually? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are those waving fronds all the nerve ends<br>of this sensitive creature of the depths<br>of the human heart? <br>Or are they stinging antennae, <br>jealously defending its survival, <br>guarding its creative core<br>against all comers? <br>Or simply, like the elephant's trunk, <br>a means to acquire the food<br>to digest <br>with its prodigious memory longer than one man's alone, <br>into the poetry of the deep? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beached on the floor of a commuter train<br>this delicate creature would be trodden under foot<br>as two-dimensional yuck; <br>but in its own environment<br>it secretly upholds humanity, <br>seeks the true in the unknown, <br>says new things about old minds, <br>teaches us to pause and think and see, <br>sings silly rhymes to enchant children, <br>shouts boldly or murmurs quietly<br>about goodness, truth and beauty, <br>and their opposites, <br>and deeply, deeply<br>loves.</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=460808" data-title="0367 Portrait of the poet as sea-monster de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The poet - by whom I mean an ordinary human being like you or me who keeps a diary of the mind and heart and then publishes it with luck and maybe sells a few - is a bit like one of those 'exotic' creatures filmed on the ocean floor, gracefully..."></div> </div> </div>

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