"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

10 November 2018

Yet.


Could I say what I think, could I express
My every hidden and too silent thought,
And bring my feelings, in perfection wrought,
To one unforced point of living stress; 

Could I breathe forth my soul, could I confess
The inmost secrets to my nature brought,
I might be great; yet none to me has taught,
A language well to figure my distress. 


Yet day and night to me new whispers bring, 
And night and day from me old whispers lake…
Oh for a word, one phrase in which to fling 

All that I think or feel and so to wake
The world, but I am dumb and cannot sing–
Dumb as you clouds before the thunders break.

Fernando Pessoa

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