<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524884" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dedicated to Hesse's Goldmund</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old master sat, <br>withering like winter’s flowers<br>as he shrank - <br>from encroaching onslaught of creeping death.<br>He had watched many shapes and faces, so held <br>shimmering vision on virile edge of his mind.<br>Afterwards thoughts never ceased to plague <br>in every shape, a certain form repetition of line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think matters not what one thought or speaks.<br>but what we shape with willing hands before time.<br>So from fetal dream began careful drawing <br>with loving fingers, clearer its shape defined.<br>To picture wondrous root of image making; grief transmuted - <br>seeking to formulate thoughts; the sharper to bind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Envisaged image was a perfect whole <br>without flaw, symmetry <br>sprung from life, from sacrosanct depths, <br>he held it within his mind.<br>Then cast it forth like a radiant jewel <br>many faceted, <br>even in darkness, <br>in faintest light it will shine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</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=524884" data-title="Dedicated to Hesse's Goldmund de Terence George Craddock" data-description="The old master sat, withering like winter’s flowers as he shrank - from encroaching onslaught of creeping death. He had watched many shapes and faces, so held shimmering vision on virile edge of his mind. Afterwards thoughts never ceased to p..."></div> </div> </div>

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