“Found poetry” are poems which are “extracted” from or found in prose or utterances, not written by the author as poetry, which can nevertheless be read as poetry.
My selections here, of course, are purely subjective and perhaps a little presumptuous. Yet Vivekananda spoke frequently in a style that could be described as poetry.
My intent is merely to attempt to show some of the poetical beauty in much of Vivekananda’s utterances — by writing them as poems, rather than prose.
The titles are my own, (but generally are Vivekananda’s words in a preceeding sentence or paragraph) – as well as the punctuation, stanzas etc.
However, the words are entirely Vivekananda’s –in the exact order he said them, without any editorial changes in his words whatsoever.
They are included in the editor’s notes, so that the reader may clearly understand that this form is not how Swami Vivekananda presented these particular words (which are all to be found elsewhere in their original form on this web site) and that the reader who feels that this is an unwarranted liberty with Vivekananda’s work, will at least know who to blame…
FRP
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BEHIND THE SCENES The dawn, and it aspires to go beyond, In the struggle
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ORDINARY MANKIND Ordinary mankind cannot understand although it may be Thus (From The lecture “The Necessity of Religion” delivered June 1896) |
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RELIGION So long as religion When men have come to it will come into our very nature, (From The lecture “The Necessity of Religion” delivered June 1896)
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