<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497728" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>why Socrates did not write....</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">he believes in what must be said<br>trusting in the recall of what is important<br>you should have paid more attention and<br>kept everything dear inside your heart<br>he never believes in the written word<br>he knows that time keeps on changing<br>and words in print do not, and like <br>Heraclitus, he had always invoked <br>that he can never step on the same river twice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am no Socrates, neither am i Plato<br>i keep notes, and write, but i shall not always be understood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i trust in the written word, and i must be foolish though.<br>i believe in epitaphs and tombstones, the tablets, <br>the bytes, those that i leave and soon may rise like the dead<br>must they redeem me soonest<br>that i can perhaps hope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the words can go on, without me, i keep on murmuring<br>may my words protect me, may my letters make you believe my truths.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">may i traverse the right path, and forever, not be punished<br>to be back, here, these valleys of tears, these thalwegs of no return.</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=497728" data-title="Why Socrates did not write.... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="he believes in what must be said trusting in the recall of what is important you should have paid more attention and kept everything dear inside your heart he never believes in the written word he knows that time keeps on changing and words in pri..."></div> </div> </div>

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