Thought for the day

[andygates]

I never saw a wild thing

sorry for itself.

A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough

without ever having felt sorry for itself.

-- D H Lawrence

Comments

[splinister.livejournal.com]

I've always liked that poem. Perhaps it's why I get annoyed at myself when I'm maudlin.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

With all due respect, considering the general WTF? quality of D. H Lawrence's concept of women's psychology, I'm not convinced I trust him on sparrows either.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Well, the assumption is presumably that the thing isn't self-aware and so cannot be self-absorbed in its woez. Which sounds pretty Buddhist actually.

"I never saw a wild thing
that didn't wash its rice bowl."

[sciolist.livejournal.com]

He wrote poetry as well as leading Arabs to victory in the war with Omar Sharif? Where have all the great people gone these days, eh...?

[flitljm.livejournal.com]

I did.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Awww...

[skean.livejournal.com]

I tought tat waz fwom GI Jane?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Barbarian dog.