What I Am

What I Am

A Poem by Pete
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To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Thoreau

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Yellow maple leaf floating ...

i'm a leaf blowing
a guileless river flowing
a man not knowing



© 2024 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with—he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?" - Thoreau

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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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