And do you know how I went to that high place knowing how I tumbled and wishing I could peel and throw away the errors of years past?
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And do you know how I went to that high place knowing how I tumbled and wishing I could peel and throw away the errors of years past?
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Aldous Huxley chose these lines of the English Renaissance poet Fulke Greville as the epigraph for the 1928 novel Point Counter Point: Oh, wearisome conditions of humanity! Borne under one Law, to another bound, Vainely begot and yet forbidden vanity: Created sick, commanded to be sound. What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws – Passion…
From our very youth We are institutionalized, Subjected to regiment, And creatively we die. We are placed in a mold And injected to form That which is pliable, The expected norm. We grow up predictable And devoid of individuality, For we’re shunned if we Display it, and that in reality Is the paramount tragedy. The…
Let’s wind up Let’s regress I don’t like the state The way it is I have no voice Or one I don’t use I think for myself When they tell me to The great freedom Hangs just in front Of the crowd whose Hands won’t snatch it. The post Syndrome | Robert League appeared first…
The womb of the words could not give birth to this longing Let me caress your shadow now that I’m missing you. Shades of blue devour my heart as I awake this morning Now that you are gone, I am left alone, missing you. I hate those giant curtains covering the windows It makes me…
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The vivacious Caroline Seebohm at Oxford, circa 1961. Related Stories Attention Internet Editors: Please Credit Your Sources Correctly! [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman] Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry