Table Talk
"Granted, we die for good.
Life, then, is largely a thing
Of happens to like, not should.
And that, too, granted, why
Do I happen to like red bush,
Gray grass and green-gray sky?
What else remains? But red,
Gray, green, why those of all?
That is not what I said:
Not those of all. But those.
One likes what one happens to like.
One likes the way red grows.
It cannot matter at all.
Happens to like is one
Of the ways things happen to fall."
--Wallace Stevens
Life, then, is largely a thing
Of happens to like, not should.
And that, too, granted, why
Do I happen to like red bush,
Gray grass and green-gray sky?
What else remains? But red,
Gray, green, why those of all?
That is not what I said:
Not those of all. But those.
One likes what one happens to like.
One likes the way red grows.
It cannot matter at all.
Happens to like is one
Of the ways things happen to fall."
--Wallace Stevens
posted by Cheshire Cat at 7:40 PM
3 Comments:
You have the option of "removing post forever", you know.
This way is probably better, though. People will wonder what it was you deemed unfit to grace your comment page...
:D
And people will now wonder what it is you're talking about :)
Oooh, you wicked!
And you called me a child when I confessed to those evil temptations.
Well, raspberries to you.
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