Flashing one's organ sounds risky at least in Raynes Park and what's this about hand playing ??? Patrick tone lowerererererererrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrror -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of andrew burke Sent: 27 April 2009 10:30 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: quote I've just blogged this fiercesome quote from George Eliot: "To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion-a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge." Challenging? Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.285 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2082 - Release Date: 04/27/09 06:19:00