Избранное. Дикиснон. 1144 Ourselves we do inter
Когда достигнешь роковой черты,
То сводится на нет бальзам той веры,
Где пылко веришь, сомневаясь ты.
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Ourselves we do inter with sweet derision.
The channel of the dust who once achieves
Invalidates the balm of that religion
That doubts as fervently as it believes.
Emily Dickinson
Примечания
Это высказывание вошло в одно из писем Самуэлу Боулзу (Samuel Bowls).
<<It might be a variant of Emily’s idea that faith, or belief, must be kept “nimble”, that we must keep an ever-watchful eye (on “that religion”/ That doubts as fervently as it believes” (from a poem incorporated in a letter to Bowls) – …that we need spiritual microscopes.>>
Richard B. Seawall
Dickinson presents a paradox: the more fervently one believes, the more fiercely one might doubt, and vice versa. The poem suggests that certainty, while seemingly a strong foundation, can also be a source of skepticism and a means of undermining the very beliefs it claims to uphold.
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