As quoted in The Perennial Philosophy (1945) by Aldous Huxley.Variant: Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Ĭleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.The Masnavi, Book IV, Story II, as translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) by Edward Henry Whinfield.Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Ĭleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,.I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. I tremble in the wind- beauty like silk from Turkestan. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? A leaf trembles. I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition. Quotes Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. 1.6 Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi (2000).1.4 Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999).He is now regarded as one of Britain’s greatest war poets. Owen eventually returned to the war but was tragically killed just days before the war ended he was just 26. In hospital Owen met the already established war poet Siegfried Sassoon who, recognising the younger man’s talent, encouraged him to continue writing. Owen had joined the army in 1915 but was hospitalised in May 1917 suffering from ‘shell shock’ (today known as PTSD – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Exposure is a particularly hard-hitting example of this. The picture they painted contradicted the scenes of glory portrayed in the British press. Owen and a number of other poets of the time used their writing to inform people back in Britain about the horrors of the war and in particular about life on the front line. It was against this background that Owen wrote Exposure. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death… The marvel is we did not all die of cold.” He wrote: “We were marooned in a frozen desert. Owen and his fellow soldiers were forced to lie outside in freezing conditions for two days. The soldiers suffered from hypothermia and frostbite and many developed trench foot, a crippling disease caused by feet being wet and cold and confined in boots for days on end. It was said to be the coldest winter in living memory. By the winter of 1917 both sides had sustained massive losses and extreme cold weather made the misery even worse. However, as both sides dug trenches across France and Belgium, the opposing armies became locked in a stalemate that neither side could break. World War One began in 1914 and at first it was predicted that it would end swiftly. 'Exposure' gives a first hand depiction of life in the trenches
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