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saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
Fri May 24, 2019, 02:03 PM May 2019

"Do not go gentle into that night."

It is my nature to say what I think, then stand aside to consider other opinions. The burden of speaking for myself is sufficient. It's not humility on my part. There is nothing I can write that has not been expressed in music or words of the author, the playwright, the politician, the crusader or a journalist.

https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night

Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas - 1914-1953

Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, Rage against the dying of the light







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"Do not go gentle into that night." (Original Post) saidsimplesimon May 2019 OP
I think I know what you mean. For most of my life I thought I had something unique to say UTUSN May 2019 #1
UTUSN, I saidsimplesimon May 2019 #2
Uh, O.K. - yea, looks like I chose poorly here!1 UTUSN May 2019 #3
Perfect response, saidsimplesimon May 2019 #4
Uh, no. UTUSN May 2019 #5

UTUSN

(70,680 posts)
1. I think I know what you mean. For most of my life I thought I had something unique to say
Fri May 24, 2019, 10:18 PM
May 2019

then every other piece of somebody else's writing had already said it. When I read one of STENDHAL's books, it was like, whoa he wrote me 200 years ago, uh...






saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
2. UTUSN, I
Fri May 24, 2019, 10:31 PM
May 2019

am not that fond of the concept of a single unique person. Did you ever give the topic much thought? It's no matter, just conversation, fellow Democrat.

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