The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert

The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert

Author:Jack Gilbert [Gilbert, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80436-5
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-12-31T00:00:00+00:00


THE DANGER OF WISDOM

We learn to live without passion.

To be reasonable. We go hungry

amid the giant granaries

this world is. We store up plenty

for when we are old and mild.

It is our strength that deprives us.

Like Keats listening to the doctor

who said the best thing for

tuberculosis was to eat only one

slice of bread and a fragment

of fish each day. Keats starved

himself to death because he yearned

so desperately to feast on Fanny Brawne.

Emerson and his wife decided to make

love sparingly in order to accumulate

his passion. We are taught to be

moderate. To live intelligently.



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