Lunatic. 3
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: You're clever, quick with words, your exact equations are right forever and ever. But in my arithmetic, take one from one- and there's still one left. You get along with five senses, I with a sixth. You have a brain, friend, I have a heart. A rose is just a rose to you- to me it's Helen and Padmini. You are forceful prose I liquid verse. When you freeze I melt, When you're clear I get muddled and then it works the other way around. Your world is solid, mine vapor, yours coarse, mine subtle. You think a stone reality; harsh cruelty is real for you. I try to catch a dream, the way you grasp the rounded truth of cold, sweet coin.
“It doth repent me; words are quick and vain;
Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.”
Prometheus, Act I, l. 304
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!”
“Everyone said he was a fool.
Everyone said she was a clever woman.
They used the word ensnare.”
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
"A Sort of a Song"
The Wedge (1944)
Context: Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
— through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.
Letter to Groucho Marx, published in The Groucho Letters
12 July 1827
Table Talk (1821–1834)
About his friend Roman Abramovich.http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/6275535.stm
