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Friday, February 17. 2012

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 "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."


(The first) Governor Cuomo. Somebody tell Mitt Romney.

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 11:23 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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I'm not crazy yet, but AM into about my fourth day of a fragment of a line of poetry rattling around in my head looking for the rest of itself.

It won't succumb to any search tried yet. I think i read it here at Maggies --the website colors are around the memory, but that could be bias rather than recollection. The line was --i think --part of a thought about coincidence, or luck, or fate, or Providence, intervening and impressing the poet with the "...but for a moment's...." something or other, there go, or don't go, I.

It sounds like Robert Frost maybe.

Strike a bell, any merciful sanitarians out there?
#1 buddy larsen on 2012-02-17 14:23 (Reply)
buddy,

This site might help. I put in "But for a moment's..." (in the search window...upper right) but didn't see anything yet.

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/339
#1.1 Garry on 2012-02-18 15:06 (Reply)
--thanks, Garry --i'll give it a try --danged earworms!

http://www.bing.com/search?q=earworm&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox
#1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2012-02-18 23:50 (Reply)
"We are but a moments sunlight..." is what's teasing me after your request but I know it's not that ("Get Together" by The Youngbloods).

You may retrieve another line and find that the Poets.org site will lead you to the nugget you seek. Good luck!
#1.1.1.1 Garry on 2012-02-19 11:17 (Reply)
Thanks --i appreciate the help --and sorry about that Youngbloods earworm!

(speaking of poetry --words n such, 'appreciate' has a nice clever twinned meaning, doesn't it --the 'other' meaning includes 'adding interest' --again the twins --!)
#1.1.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2012-02-19 14:08 (Reply)
Glad to help. But up here I'm more concerned about earwigs tuned to an A susp7th than the paltry earworm!!

I'll keep an ear to your request.
#1.1.1.1.1.1 Garry on 2012-02-19 15:32 (Reply)

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