<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508992" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Boats In A Fog</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,<br>The exuberant voices of music,<br>Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness<br>That makes beauty; the mind<br>Knows, grown adult.<br>A sudden fog-drift muffled the ocean,<br>A throbbing of engines moved in it,<br>At length, a stone's throw out, between the rocks and the vapor,<br>One by one moved shadows<br>Out of the mystery, shadows, fishing-boats, trailing each other<br>Following the cliff for guidance,<br>Holding a difficult path between the peril of the sea-fog<br>And the foam on the shore granite.<br>One by one, trailing their leader, six crept by me,<br>Out of the vapor and into it,<br>The throb of their engines subdued by the fog, patient and<br>cautious,<br>Coasting all round the peninsula<br>Back to the buoys in Monterey harbor. A flight of pelicans<br>Is nothing lovelier to look at;<br>The flight of the planets is nothing nobler; all the arts lose virtue<br>Against the essential reality<br>Of creatures going about their business among the equally<br>Earnest elements of nature.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robinson+Jeffers">Robinson Jeffers</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=508992" data-title="Boats In A Fog de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers, The exuberant voices of music, Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness That makes beauty; the mind Knows, grown adult. A sudden fog-drift muffled the o..."></div> </div> </div>

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