A vice, weakness, laughable folly or illness?
It might seem pathetic
to collect old empty bottles
for the happy moments they conserve
instead of what they once contained,
and once you start on that kind of collection,
you will soon have empty bottles
all around that you just cannot throw away
for sentimental reasons,
as a kind of cultivation of sentimentality,
which tends to overgrow you like an illness,
just like any other sort of sickly mania
for collecting anything, like stamps, old papers,
technical mecanical contraptions or like any junk;
but there is really nothing wrong about sentimentality.
It's not a virtue, certainly no rational acquirement,
no useful business, but more like a softness of the heart,
a tendency to gloat on what is sweet and lovely,
underscoring, stressing and endorsing human factors;
and a human weakness of that kind of mild and gentle touch
is more to be respected than despized,
and more to be appreciated than made fun of;
although there is always something of a smile
about a sympathetic sentimental fool.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2018-03-30 at 23:52
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Empty bottles
It might seem pathetic
to collect old empty bottles
for the happy moments they conserve
instead of what they once contained,
and once you start on that kind of collection,
you will soon have empty bottles
all around that you just cannot throw away
for sentimental reasons,
as a kind of cultivation of sentimentality,
which tends to overgrow you like an illness,
just like any other sort of sickly mania
for collecting anything, like stamps, old papers,
technical mecanical contraptions or like any junk;
but there is really nothing wrong about sentimentality.
It's not a virtue, certainly no rational acquirement,
no useful business, but more like a softness of the heart,
a tendency to gloat on what is sweet and lovely,
underscoring, stressing and endorsing human factors;
and a human weakness of that kind of mild and gentle touch
is more to be respected than despized,
and more to be appreciated than made fun of;
although there is always something of a smile
about a sympathetic sentimental fool.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 631 times
Written on 2018-03-30 at 23:52
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