Hi Horse, I consider poetry to represent the Code of Art in a form that can be posted. I do try to choose poems that represent the MoQ, but of course poetry should not need explicit explaining. If you would prefer that I do not post such poetry as it is 'irrelevant nonsense', I will stop.
Marsha On Nov 23, 2012, at 7:21 AM, Horse <[email protected]> wrote: > Marsha > > Please tell me how this is about Robert Pirsig's MoQ!!! > > Horse > > On 23/11/2012 09:51, MarshaV wrote: >> >> Archaic Torso of Apollo >> >> by Rainer Maria Rilke >> translated by Stephen Mitchell >> >> We cannot know his legendary head >> with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso >> is still suffused with brilliance from inside, >> like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, >> >> gleams in all its power. Otherwise >> the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could >> a smile run through the placid hips and thighs >> to that dark center where procreation flared. >> >> Otherwise this stone would seem defaced >> beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders >> and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur: >> >> would not, from all the borders of itself, >> burst like a star: for here there is no place >> that does not see you. You must change your life. >> >> _____________ >> >> >> Reminds me: >> >> >> "Causes and results are infinite in number and variety. Everything >> affects everything. In this universe, when one thing changes, >> everything changes. Hence the great power of man in changing >> the world by changing himself." >> (Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj) >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
