<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poetry For Supper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Listen, now, verse should be as natural <br>As the small tuber that feeds on muck <br>And grows slowly from obtuse soil <br>To the white flower of immortal beauty.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer <br>Said once about the long toil <br>That goes like blood to the poem's making? <br>Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, <br>Limp as bindweed, if it break at all <br>Life's iron crust. Man, you must sweat <br>And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build <br>Your verse a ladder.' <br>'You speak as though <br>No sunlight ever surprised the mind <br>Groping on its cloudy path.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sunlight's a thing that needs a window <br>Before it enter a dark room. <br>Windows don't happen.' <br>So two old poets, <br>Hunched at their beer in the low haze <br>Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran <br>Noisily by them, glib with prose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by Andrew Mayers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ronald+Stuart+Thomas">Ronald Stuart Thomas</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=509905" data-title="Poetry For Supper de Ronald Stuart Thomas" data-description="'Listen, now, verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty.' 'Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil That goes like blood..."></div> </div> </div>

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