<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Let Them Alone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If God has been good enough to give you a poet<br>Then listen to him. But for God's sake let him alone until he is dead; <br>no prizes, no ceremony,<br>They kill the man. A poet is one who listens<br>To nature and his own heart; and if the noise of the world grows up <br>around him, and if he is tough enough,<br>He can shake off his enemies, but not his friends.<br>That is what withered Wordsworth and muffled Tennyson, and would have <br>killed Keats; that is what makes<br>Hemingway play the fool and Faulkner forget his art.</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=509025" data-title="Let Them Alone de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="If God has been good enough to give you a poet Then listen to him. But for God's sake let him alone until he is dead; no prizes, no ceremony, They kill the man. A poet is one who listens To nature and his own heart; and if the noise of the world ..."></div> </div> </div>

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