[Dialogue] Need a quote

[W. J.]

Ellen, somehow old age is creeping up like the sheer tip of a wedge blade inserted!
 
Alas, the poet is D. H. Lawrence, not e. e. cummings. And the poem is 
 
The Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
by D.H. Lawrence
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! 
A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. 

If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me! 
If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift! 

If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed 
By the fine, fine wind that takes its course though the chaos of the world 
Like a fine, and exquisite chisel, a wedge-blade inserted; 

If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge 
Driven by invisible blows, 
The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides. 

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul, 
I would be a good fountain, a good well-head, 
Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression. 

What is the knocking? 
What is the knocking at the door in the night? 
It's somebody wants to do us harm. 

No, no, it is the three strange angels. 
Admit them, admit them. 

--Marshall

--- On Wed, 10/22/08, RICHARD HOWIE <rhowie3 at verizon.net> wrote:

From: RICHARD HOWIE <rhowie3 at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Need a quote
To: "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 1:58 PM


I believe it comes from the eecummings poetry where the wedgeblade is used as a metaphor, and which contains the 'fine wind blowing'.
Ellen


On Oct 22, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Marge Philbrook wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out who did the nolonger and not yet stuff.  And no one has given me a clue yet.  Marge Philbrook



On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, David & Lin Zahrt <chbnb at netins.net> wrote:


George, when you get to be our age there are 3 things you worry about:


1) your eyesight,
2) your hearing, and
3) Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh...






On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:45 AM, George Holcombe wrote:




My mind is slipping, I can't find the quote or source for that reading in CS-I that ends "and what will I never live to see." or something like that.  Anyone have the quote, book, chapter, verse?




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