<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=526684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Simple Solutions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a young man, I <br>used to ask this question.<br>“Words are the tools of my trade.<br> What am I? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A simple succinct question.<br>No one ever knew the answer, <br>I am about to impart to you.<br>“A poet. A man to whom <br> words are sacred.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I am old born old, and I <br>have a question, to ask of you! <br>“What is the quintessential value <br> of the entire human race? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“quintessence, from Latin quinta essentia, fifth essence! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The highest essence, <br>that coming after the four elements<br>forming the substance of the heavenly bodies, <br>the pure essence of any substance.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>? /? /? /? /? /? /? /? /? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">guess</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> guess</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> guess</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> yet still uncertain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or do you know? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Did you work this out <br> with your amazing <br>astonishing powers <br> focusing reasoning? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Or was it a moments inspiration? <br> A moment of eureka? <br> A transcendental moment? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“eureka, from Greek heureka, ‘I have found it’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cry of triumph at a discovery. The exclamation <br>(‘I have found it’) uttered by Archimedes <br>when he discovered the means of determining <br>(by specific gravity) the proportion of base <br>metal in Hiero’s crown.” Purity of gold in a crown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Simple solutions achieved after great exoneration.<br>A testament to ideals applied in time well spent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Race quest is to overcome<br> feeble foolishness typifying youth<br>and sudden ignorance judgements <br> defining limited intellect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Upward psychospiritual ascent<br> widening expression <br>achieves instant (intellectual?) <br> cosmic all knowing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>translating latent <br> unconscious collective thought <br>into intuitions awareness <br> creation nurturing new</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>psychological and social organizations <br> resonating critical mass, <br>higher guidance, aspirations <br> inherent in luminous divine spark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></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=526684" data-title="Simple Solutions de Terence George Craddock" data-description="When I was a young man, I used to ask this question. “Words are the tools of my trade. What am I? ” A simple succinct question. No one ever knew the answer, I am about to impart to you. “A poet. A man to whom words are sacred.” Now ..."></div> </div> </div>

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