Be content -- Expansions, diffusions -- content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker urges contentment with being a simple center of the world.
- In plain terms
- Be happy just being a simple part of the world.
- What can you take from it?
- Finding joy in simplicity and centrality.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can you be content without doing more?
Another view
It asks for stillness in a world that demands motion.
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