<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492153" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pre-departure Poem 3</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">did the white rose know<br>that the thorns<br>on her side<br>just below her petals<br>are the ones that make<br>her appear<br>pure and beautiful? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is the logic<br>of contrast and the<br>art of elimination<br>that work out well<br>in making us<br>give the most<br>of what we are<br>and not the idealism<br>of the category<br>which only says what<br>we ought to be<br>we become because of<br>constraint and<br>necessity<br>and so here we are always<br>on the reconstruction<br>not because of the fulfillment<br>of desire<br>but because of the<br>prosperity and intensity<br>the industry of pain</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=492153" data-title="Pre-departure Poem 3 de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="did the white rose know that the thorns on her side just below her petals are the ones that make her appear pure and beautiful? it is the logic of contrast and the art of elimination that work out well in making us give the most of what we are a..."></div> </div> </div>

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