<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=560987" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Len Webster's 'On Reading Lorca in Thailand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We go on writing, beating ourselves up, <br>Shredding experience into words, fragments<br>To be re-shaped for a future self to read, <br>Or (ideally) some real other to replace the imaginary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like seeds set free from plant-heads, <br>Words drift in the air, less permanent<br>Than real seeds that at least have a chance<br>To perpetuate their own kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Powerless without people united in common language and sensibility, <br>Words become nature's drifters, <br>To be transformed through the intervention of others<br>Or dispersed onto rocks that will not welcome them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our myth is to be discovered, to survive, a remnant of an age, <br>An epoch, a race, a family, a simple self.<br>Symbolised by a name that is as much an invention<br>As our very identity, art and narrative carry us through, <br>Clinging to the low-lying islands<br>In the face of dreaded certainties.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Len+Webster">Len Webster</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=560987" data-title="Len Webster's 'On Reading Lorca in Thailand de Len Webster" data-description="We go on writing, beating ourselves up, Shredding experience into words, fragments To be re-shaped for a future self to read, Or (ideally) some real other to replace the imaginary. Like seeds set free from plant-heads, Words drift in the air, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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