THE
CENTRAL POINT
A philosophistry
I am the Universe's Centre.
No subtle sceptics can confound me;
for how can other viewpoints enter,
when all the rest is all around me?
Piet Hein |
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T.T.T
Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
The cryptic admonishment T.T.T.
When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.
Piet Hein |
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LOOK
AND THOU SHALT FIND
Foes
of what's cooking
see no worth behind it.
Those
that are looking
for nothing - will find it.
Piet Hein |
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What
are You?
The way to grow grand
is not: to demand
In life's every field
you are what you yield.
Piet Hein |
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The
Egocentrics
People are self-centered
to a nauseous degree.
They will keep on about themselves
while I'm explaining me.
Piet Hein |
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TWO
PASSIVISTS
Eradicate the optimist
who takes the easy
view that human values will persist
no matter what we do.
Annihilate the pessimist
whose ineffectual cry
is that the goal's already missed
however hard we try.
Piet Hein |
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THOUGHTS
AND THINGS
I concentrate on
the concentric rings
produced by my pen
in the ink.
The thing that distinguishes
thoughts from things
is that thoughts are harder
to think.
Piet Hein
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LAST
THINGS FIRST
Solutions to problems
are easy to find:
the problem's a great
contribution.
What's truly an art
is to wring from your mind
a problem to fit
a solution.
Piet Hein |
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ON
BEING ONESELF
Good resolution grook
If virtue can't be mine alone
at least my faults can be my own.
Piet Hein |
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