Book Title: Lotus Bloom
Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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________________ Birth of Poetry True poetry is not just fine verse engineered by human effort, but a sacred stream of the creative being bubbling forth from the conflict of agony and dismay surging within the poet's heart. Detective You may succeed perchance in concealing your secret sins from the view of the world; but how long could you keep them locked from the orbit of your own conscience—the consecrated lord of your own being? Valour There is no valour in crushing the weak through brutal force; sheer violence it is, directed by blind passion. Valour abides in these twin things: in confessing with candour the lapse committed by one's self; and in bearing with a manly heart whatever consequences might stem from the lapse once committed. 35

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