" The Danger of Wisdom

We learn to live without passion.
To be reasonable. We go hungry
amid the giant granaries
this world is. We store up plenty
for when we are old and mild.
It is out strength that deprives us.
Like Keats listening to the doctor
who said the best thing for
tuberculosis was to eat only one
slide ob bread and a fragment
of fish each day. Keats strarved
himself to death because he yearned
so desperately to feast on Fanny Brawne.
Emerson and his wife decided to make
love sparingly in order to accumulate
his passion. We are taught to be
moderate. To live intelligently. "

― Jack Gilbert , Collected Poems