“The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates. Some authors, indeed, do far more than this, and indulge themselves in such confidential depths of revelation as could fittingly be addressed only and exclusively to the one heart and mind of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer’s own nature, and complete his circle of existence by bringing him into communion with it. It is scarcely decorous, however, to speak all, even where we speak impersonally. But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbed, unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then, a native reserve being thawed by this genial consciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
http://www.un.org/en/events/poetryday/2015/dgmessage.shtml
Take a few minutes and read a poem today… feel the words and let emotions take over you… Remember how the written word enriches our lives, it’s World Poetry Day after all! 🙂
You are also reminding me how good it is to share, as you did here, a quote or poem that one may so fortunately find!
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Certain fragments just call to you in a special way and they express your thoughts so much better than you yourself could…
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*sigh* What a beautiful share!!
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It was a lucky coincidence, I guess 🙂
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The world needs more poetry, it just doesn’t know it! if it knew it, there would already be more poetry!
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We could all do with ‘consuming’ more poetry. We’d better people for it…
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