02-17-2014, 08:26 AM
Many of you pointed to the fact that 'yield to imprecision' seems to be the antithesis of the rest of the poem. In my mind, it isn't. The message of this poem was to not get caught up in trying to make perfect sense of everything, but rather to live as fully as possible.
Better raw the taste of vision-
perception, unrefined. - life is best experienced 'firsthand' (not on the other side of a TV screen
Yield to imprecision. - don't worry about having everything weighed, measured, and counted out perfectly. It's OK. Allow for your own humanness.
Do not distill the mind. - don't try to force your mind to be some pure, absolute thing that it isn't. It is already a miracle.
Make living your ambition:
leave all the rest behind. - self explanatory
Better raw the taste of vision-
perception, unrefined. - life is best experienced 'firsthand' (not on the other side of a TV screen
Yield to imprecision. - don't worry about having everything weighed, measured, and counted out perfectly. It's OK. Allow for your own humanness.
Do not distill the mind. - don't try to force your mind to be some pure, absolute thing that it isn't. It is already a miracle.
Make living your ambition:
leave all the rest behind. - self explanatory