Norman MacCaigSelf under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the centre, me.
About This Quote
This quote, in a spiritual sense, refers to a person who has a lot of selves. They might let themselves go and be all over the place. They might let themselves get stuck in time and lose themselves in the past or future. Or they might simply get tangled up in their own metaphysic mind and become lost in its labyrinth of thoughts and feelings.
Each self wants to be different than the other selves; each wants to be at one with itself. There is no unity or peace in this situation. The solution is to lift up the farm like a lid and see the many selves within it.
Then we can make peace between them and put them all back together again.
Source: The Poems Of Norman Maccaig
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