Showing posts with label Samuel Beckett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Beckett. Show all posts

Monday, March 29, 2010

Gnome by Samuel Beckett

Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.

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Editor's note from the Selected Poems(1930-1989): 'Gnosis' = Knowledge in Ancient Greek