{"id":1436,"date":"2009-11-29T00:33:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2009-11-29T00:33:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:33:33","slug":"poem-o-world-thou-choosest-not-the-better-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/poem-o-world-thou-choosest-not-the-better-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  O world, thou choosest not the better part!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s poem is a sonnet by George Santayana (1863-1952), whom I have blogged about <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/08\/recent-reading-3-santayana\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/08\/an-insignificant-literary-mystery\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sonnet III<\/em><br \/>\nO world, thou choosest not the better part!<br \/>\nIt is not wisdom to be only wise,<br \/>\nAnd on the inward vision close the eyes,<br \/>\nBut it is wisdom to believe the heart.<br \/>\nColumbus found a world, and had no chart,<br \/>\nSave one that faith deciphered in the skies;<br \/>\nTo trust the soul&#8217;s invincible surmise<br \/>\nWas all his science and his only art.<br \/>\nOur knowledge is a torch of smoky pine<br \/>\nThat lights the pathway but one step ahead<br \/>\nAcross a void of mystery and dread.<br \/>\nBid, then, the tender light of faith to shine<br \/>\nBy which alone the mortal heart is led<br \/>\nUnto the thinking of the thought divine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s poem is a sonnet by George Santayana (1863-1952), whom I have blogged about here and here. Sonnet III O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decision-theory","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m11","d29","h00"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}