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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

[nearly]Wordless Wednesday

"Let it be told to the future world . . . that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive . . . that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it." Thomas Paine

. . .In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air,

any thing can be made, any sentence begun.

On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp. . .

Elizabeth Alexander


4 comments:

  1. It was amazing! And for all the flack I read about Elizabeth Alexander, I would say that her critics should hush -- that was an amazing poem.

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  2. We are of one mind, Sistah!
    Aloha-

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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals--that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm & unspoiled when the world praises him.
Honoré de Balzac