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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507856" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Glory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted names <br>And legends into verses for the chorus to sing: <br>Names recalled now only in the poems of Pindar: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O nearly unpronounceable immortals, <br>In the dash, Oionos was champion: <br>Oionos, Likmynios's son, who came from Midea. <br>In wrestling, Echemos won—the name <br>Of his home city, Tegea, proclaimed to the crowds. <br>Doryklos of Tiryns won the prize in boxing, <br>And the record for a four-horse team was set <br>By Samos from Mantinea, Halirothios's son. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Pindar, poet of the Olympian and Isthmian <br>And Pythian games, wrote also of the boundless <br>And forgetful savannas of time. What is someone?<br>The chorus sing in a victory ode—What is a nobody?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Creatures of a day, they chant in answer, Creatures <br>Of a day. So where is the godgiven glory Pindar says <br>Settles on mortals?—Bright as gold among the substances, <br>Say the chorus, paramount as water among the elements. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not in the victory itself, petty or great, <br>Of rich young Greeks contending in games. <br>Not in the poetry itself, with its forgotten dances <br>And Pindar spinning among tiresome or stirring <br>Myths and genealogies, the chanted names <br>Of cities and invoked gods and dignitaries— </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Striving, O nearly unpronounceable athletes, <br>To animate the air with dancing feet raising <br>A golden pollen of dust: a pervasive blur <br>Of seedlets in the sunlight, whirling—beyond mere <br>Victory or applause or performance, <br>As victory is beyond defeat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The one who threw the javelin furthest <br>Sang the chorus, chanting Pindar's incantation <br>Against envy and oblivion, was Phrastor. <br>And when Nikeus grunting whirled the stone <br>Into the air and it flew past the marks <br>Of all the competitors, Nikeus's countrymen <br>Shouted his name after it, Nikeus, <br>Nikeus, and the syllables so say the lines Pindar <br>Composed for the sweating chorus to chant—radiated <br>For a spell like the silvery mirror of the moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Pinsky">Robert Pinsky</a><div class=q>
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And legends into verses for the chorus to sing: 
Names recalled now only in the poems of Pindar: 

O nearly unpronounceable immortals, 
In the dash, Oionos was champion: 
Oionos, Likmynios's son, who ca..."></div>
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