Blaise Pascal or a friend of his remarked
That theatre is dangerous because it excites
Emotions in us, which we cannot resolve,
Except by dramatic action. True it may be,
But emotions need a bit of exercise sometimes,
Don't they? Our humdrum life may otherwise
Put them in atrophy. Is that the reason why
Some people weaken emotions to sentiments?
We have to rethink, recover, revise in our own later context, all the great proverbs that are embedded in our parlance.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
We have to rethink, recover, restate the wise sayings which form part of our literature and parlance.