<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506802" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Considerable Speck</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Microscopic)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A speck that would have been beneath my sight<br>On any but a paper sheet so white<br>Set off across what I had written there.<br>And I had idly poised my pen in air<br>To stop it with a period of ink<br>When something strange about it made me think,<br>This was no dust speck by my breathing blown,<br>But unmistakably a living mite<br>With inclinations it could call its own.<br>It paused as with suspicion of my pen,<br>And then came racing wildly on again<br>To where my manuscript was not yet dry;<br>Then paused again and either drank or smelt--<br>With loathing, for again it turned to fly.<br>Plainly with an intelligence I dealt.<br>It seemed too tiny to have room for feet,<br>Yet must have had a set of them complete<br>To express how much it didn't want to die.<br>It ran with terror and with cunning crept.<br>It faltered: I could see it hesitate;<br>Then in the middle of the open sheet<br>Cower down in desperation to accept<br>Whatever I accorded it of fate.<br>I have none of the tenderer-than-thou<br>Collectivistic regimenting love<br>With which the modern world is being swept.<br>But this poor microscopic item now!<br>Since it was nothing I knew evil of<br>I let it lie there till I hope it slept.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a mind myself and recognize<br>Mind when I meet with it in any guise<br>No one can know how glad I am to find<br>On any sheet the least display of mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Frost">Robert Frost</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=506802" data-title="A Considerable Speck de Robert Frost" data-description="(Microscopic) A speck that would have been beneath my sight On any but a paper sheet so white Set off across what I had written there. And I had idly poised my pen in air To stop it with a period of ink When something strange about it made me thi..."></div> </div> </div>

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