<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Still The Mind Smiles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions,<br>Knowing all the while that civilization and the other evils<br>That make humanity ridiculous, remain<br>Beautiful in the whole fabric, excesses that balance each other<br>Like the paired wings of a flying bird.<br>Misery and riches, civilization and squalid savagery,<br>Mass war and the odor of unmanly peace:<br>Tragic flourishes above and below the normal of life.<br>In order to value this fretful time<br>It is necessary to remember our norm, the unaltered passions,<br>The same-colored wings of imagination,<br>That the crowd clips, in lonely places new-grown; the unchanged<br>Lives of herdsmen and mountain farms,<br>Where men are few, and few tools, a few weapons, and their<br>dawns are beautiful.<br>From here for normal one sees both ways,<br>And listens to the splendor of God, the exact poet, the sonorous<br>Antistrophe of desolation to the strophe multitude.</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=509065" data-title="Still The Mind Smiles de Robinson Jeffers" data-description="Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions, Knowing all the while that civilization and the other evils That make humanity ridiculous, remain Beautiful in the whole fabric, excesses that balance each other Like the paired wings of a flying bird. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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