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Do not come up with your own rules. If you can not comprehend the way, on a far journey how would you know the road. Progress is not about far or near, delusion can block (you) as firmly as the mountains and rivers. I respectfully say to those who wish to be enlightened: Do not waste your time by night or day.
In the early nineteenth century, Wordsworth wrote several sonnets lambasting what he perceived as "the decadent material cynicism of the time". [1] "The World Is Too Much With Us" is one of those works. It reflects his view that humanity must get in touch with people to progress spiritually. [1] The rhyme scheme of the
Why should we idly waste our prime Repeating our oppressions? Come rouse to arms! 'Tis now the time To punish past transgressions. 'Tis said that Kings can do no wrong — Their murderous deeds deny it, And, since from us their power is sprung, We have a right to try it. Now each true patriot's song shall be: — 'Welcome Death or Libertie!'
A simple and goofy bit of rhyme is perfectly fine, especially if it leads to a smile.
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
The poem begins with the act of looking in a mirror, and the act of noticing the passage of time – which operate exactly as a memento mori: the medieval tradition of contemplating one's own mortality. The poem turns from that and ends with a model of creative productivity through observation, contemplation and writing — in a collaboration ...
The poem encourages us not to miss the world’s deliciousness: “Quiet’s cool flesh—/let’s sniff and eat it./There are ways/to make of the moment/a topiary/so the pleasure’s in/walking ...
An example of the phrase as a sundial motto in Redu, Belgium.. Tempus fugit is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination (cf. carpe diem) rather than an argument for licentiousness (cf. "gather ye rosebuds while ye may"); the English form is often merely descriptive: "time flies like the wind", "time flies when you're having fun".