All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.
Louis MacneiceRead
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a plea for strength to resist dehumanizing forces.
In this quote, Louis MacNeice reflects on the vulnerability of human existence and the external pressures that can strip away one's humanity. It captures the desire for resilience and empowerment in the face of societal and personal challenges that threaten individuality and compassion. The emphasis is on the need for inner strength to combat forces that seek to undermine our humanity.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about personal empowerment during difficult times.
All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.
I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.
All that I would like to be is human, having a share_x000D_ in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted_x000D_ community where the mind is given its due_x000D_ but the body is not distrusted
when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
My faceless neighbor spoke up: βDonβt be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.β I exploded: βWhat do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: βI have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Who knows when the end is reached? Death may be the beginning of life. How do I know that love of life is not a delusion after all? How do I know that he who dreads to die is as a child who has lost the way and cannot find his way home? How do I know that the dead repent of having previously clung to life?
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