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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567604" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Poet And Poetry: The Complete Text</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1<br>Shakespeare and Kalidas and Homer<br>had no need to flaunt qualifications <br>so don’t trumpet too much of yours </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">2<br>in this kingdom<br>where one writes <br>there is no seniority, each is equal</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">3<br>it is not important to be a poet; <br>the thing is to bring the poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">4<br>one may win titles<br>and may be crowned Poet Laureate: <br>but only time points out <br>the poet from the crumpet</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">5<br>none of your self<br>and none of your importance here: <br>just poetry, if you can, <br>poetry is all that’s needed</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">6<br>poetry can be<br>like a sky filled with wrangling clouds<br>or as a sky without a wisp</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">7<br>in poetry one wakes from dreams<br>and it may yet be <br>that one’s wakefulness is itself but a dream</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">8<br>in poetry there are no <br>clichés in thought and phrase; <br>and what is left there is<br>the resplendent and the living</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">9<br>the writer who repeats<br>inaptly<br>word, phrase and concept read or heard<br>comes second-hand into a market for bad verse</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">10<br>one writes; <br>one does not fill one’s mind with the words: <br>I want to achieve</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">11<br>one writes and <br>the self disappears<br>and what is left is understanding</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">12<br>poetry leaves one<br>rich inside<br>and ordinary outside</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">13<br>the fool defines poetry<br>and poetry defies all definitions</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">14<br>poetry entertains, inspires; <br>poetry tickles, distracts, and shapes and frees - <br>but its true intent, no one knows</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">15<br>expand your understanding of the self – <br>it includes the world</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">16<br>if one had no coins <br>one cannot buy bread; <br>but not all the world’s wealth<br>can bring you poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">17<br>celebrate your locality<br>but go beyond the parochial; <br>go beyond the region’s arrogance <br>to reach minds across cyberspace</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">18<br>many lines, and countless lines<br>many pages, and thick volumes <br>don’t make poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">19<br>Oh no! <br>Not another love poem! <br>Oh no! <br>Not another poem about oneself! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">20<br>rhyme, technique and meter <br>and tricks of prosody<br>don’t make poetry: passion does</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">21<br>the fool speaks of having <br>written the most number of poems in the world; <br>and the same fool speaks of quantity </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">22<br>we rarely succeed<br>if one does not go <br>beyond oneself</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">23<br>you wink, you twinkle<br>you want praise; <br>you write and you publish online<br>and you want to win titles –<br>and so poetry eludes you always</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">24<br>a hundred titles, a hundred prizes<br>a hundred spots of fame<br>and international renown<br>all these pale, all pale<br>before a single line of luminosity</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">25<br>the ambitious write pathetic verse; <br>the lover yields <br>and poetry embraces such a one</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Raj+Arumugam">Raj Arumugam</a><div class=q>
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Shakespeare and Kalidas and Homer
had no need to flaunt qualifications 
so don’t trumpet too much of yours 



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in this kingdom
where one writes 
there is no seniority, each is equal



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it is not important to be a poet; 
the thing is to bri..."></div>
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