Marianne Moore - Blessed is the man

 


who does not sit in the seat of the scoffer
the man who does not denigrate depreciate or denunciate

who is not characteristically intemperate 
who does not ecuse retreat equivocate or retreat and will be heard 


ah Giorgione there are those who mongrelize
and those who hejfhten everything they tohch
although it may we'll be

that if Georgiana self portrait weer not said to be he
it might not take my fancy Blessed is the genius who knows


that egomania is not a duty
diversity controversy and tolerance is that citadel
of learning , we have a fort that ought to hammer us well

Blessed is the man who takes the rjsj of a decision and ask

himself the question would it solve the problem
is it right as I use it is it in the best interest of all

Alas Ulysses companion are now political 
living self indulgently until the moral sense is drowned 

having lost all power of comparison 
thinking licence emancipates one slaves who they themselves have bound 
Brazen authors downright soiled and t downright spoiled as if
sound
and exception are the quasi modish counterfeit

mitin proofing content against character

affronted by private lies and public shame blessed is the author

who favours what the supercilious do not favour 
who will not comply, blessed the unaccomdarting man

Blessed is the man whose faith is different
from possessiveness of a kind which is not framed by things which do appear 

who will not visualize defeat too intent to cower
whose illumined eyes have seen the shaft that gilds the sultan tower


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