{"id":33910,"date":"2025-04-21T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33910"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:57:02","slug":"this-is-beautiful-scolds-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33910","title":{"rendered":"This is beautiful, scolds the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">This is beautiful, scolds the mind,<br>Seeing the mind wandering.<br>It ransacks its lexicon to find<br>Other words, pondering<br><em>Lovely<\/em>, <em>rare<\/em>, or perhaps <em>sublime<\/em><br>As sounds with which to hold the mind<br>That skitters anxiously through time<br>And which the things in view remind<br>Of other things undone, unfixed.<br>Disapproving, the mind regards<br>Itself distracted, not transfixed.<br>The whole it had glimpsed: now in shards.<br>The mind a problem for the mind,<br>A solid door has shut behind. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25321\">When the Lotus Bloomed<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=33816\">Intimations<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=26293\">a Hegelian meditation<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=31809\">the fetter<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=18611\">Mindlessness: A Sonnet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is beautiful, scolds the mind,Seeing the mind wandering.It ransacks its lexicon to findOther words, ponderingLovely, rare, or perhaps sublimeAs sounds with which to hold the mindThat skitters anxiously through timeAnd which the things in view remindOf other things undone, unfixed.Disapproving, the mind regardsItself distracted, not transfixed.The whole it had glimpsed: now in shards.The mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33910"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33918,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33910\/revisions\/33918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}