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While Noam Chomsky was busy signing books in Dublin today (photo from elsewhere), I managed to have half a word with Carol Chomsky. She mentioned her favourite poem was Wisdom by Sara Teasdale. It really is a magnificent poem and comes from a beautiful collection called Love Songs written in 1917. Obviously it's only idle speculation if we ask; did Noam Chomsky give Carol the book as a gift or vice versa? But I think it's probably fair to say that reading this collection will give you a little more insight into what gives them such strength. One to memorise.

Wisdom

WHEN I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange -- my youth.