Concordia Discors -Gleanings/Contrasts Poem by Warren Falcon

for Josef - '...noons of dryness see you fed' - W. H. Auden



Concordia Discors - inharmonious harmony: harmony of discordant elements



...But to stand in the midst of this rerum concordia discors and of this whole marvelous uncertainty and rich ambiguity of existence… - Nietzsche, Gay Science.



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Acedia (ah-che-di-ah) - spiritual or mental sloth; apathy'



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He has an impulse to confess more than is likely. - Randall Potts



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Our path is a path of roses, but it is also a way of thorns. - Fr. Giovanni Melchior Bosco of the Salesian Society



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Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors?

What does the discordant harmony of things mean, and what can it do? - Horace



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When I stare and stare at a flower it is bigger than me. - John Tarrant



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I confess to myself a perhaps capricious fondness for it. - Walt Whitman



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How sparrows constitute Heart's aviary



How Billie's staggers ever wager

skin memory at odds with hesitation - N. Nightingale



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Now all the truth is out,

Be secret and take defeat

From any brazen throat - William Butler Yeats



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I am walking among the emerald trees

in the night without end. - Mark Strand

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