On 4 October 2011 you posted the Portugese word saudade: An experience of incompleteness giving rise to melancholy. Waking the sun with praise dispels saudade. GK Chesterton said the atheist has nobody outside the human realm to thank. John Henry Newman said that faith pays the universe the ultimate compliment.
*In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.*
Auden (un vrai croyant as the French say) from his poem In Memory of WB Yeats. Read it on poets.org
On 4 October 2011 you posted the Portugese word saudade:
ReplyDeleteAn experience of incompleteness giving rise to melancholy.
Waking the sun with praise dispels saudade.
GK Chesterton said the atheist has nobody outside the human realm to thank.
John Henry Newman said that faith pays the universe the ultimate compliment.
*In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.*
Auden (un vrai croyant as the French say) from his poem In Memory of WB Yeats.
Read it on poets.org
I would never have remembered that!
DeleteIncluding its beauty.
ReplyDeleteThe limit on syllables conveniently allows some wiggle room with interpreting this. It works well
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