<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=490108" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Keep Listening Still</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">when our friends finally abandon us<br>we are still lucky<br>to have us: me myself and I, <br>NOW, there is no need to adjust<br>and chart what the other <br>needs<br>what amount of light must this room<br>have<br>what shape must the window be<br>half-open or wide open to see<br>the long stretch of the road beyond <br>this room <br>narrow and noisy with the other</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when everything fails<br>do not ponder upon any loss or regret<br>how useless and faulty have you become<br>there is no use<br>the world moves on<br>the ship sails still</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when made to choose between the joy of the crowd<br>when you cannot afford it<br>choose silence instead <br>purify the mind<br>live in the solitude of the soul<br>like a pond without a ripple</div><div style="margin:10px 0">however, when a leaf falls (another metaphor for death<br>or failure) <br>welcome it<br>for such shall become your<br>wise company</div><div style="margin:10px 0">listen to the duet <br>of leaf and water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=490108" data-title="Keep Listening Still de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="when our friends finally abandon us we are still lucky to have us: me myself and I, NOW, there is no need to adjust and chart what the other needs what amount of light must this room have what shape must the window be half-open or wide open to s..."></div> </div> </div>

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