Milen

March 26, 2005

Poetry

I’m taking a 14-week class in 4 Saturdays! If that doesn’t take comprression and contractility what else? It is a bitch but it is cool in the same time. As I once said, school makes me feel alive and full of meaning:). I spent 17 hours studying on Wednesday – crazy I tell ya! It all paid off. However, the organizational behavior class that I’m taking on Saturday made me turn back and dive into poetry…

TO A SNAIL
Marianne Moore

If "compression is the first grace of style",
you have it. Contractility is a virtue
as modesty is a virtue.
It is not the acquisition of any one thing
that is able to adorn,
or the incidental quality that occurs
as a concomitant of something well said,
that we value in style,
but the principle that is hid:
in the absence of feet, "a method of conclusions";
"a knowledge of principles",
in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.

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