DAY 257

The Prelude

William Wordsworth · 1850
The Prelude
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

How does the wonder I felt in nature as a child remain within me now?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Reading this long and beautiful epic that confesses how the mind of a poet grows, I recalled the forests and winds of a childhood I had utterly forgotten. Wordsworth says that nature is no mere backdrop but a great teacher that delicately shapes the soul. When my senses have grown dull, worn down by arid routine, it is a book brimming with life, like green leaves, that reawakens the pure vitality in the deepest part of me.

— ONGO · Curator
"The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."
William Wordsworth, The Prelude
"아이는 어른의 아버지. 내 하루하루가 자연의 숭고함으로 이어지기를."

🌱Apply It Today

Pause your busy day, take a walk, and lose yourself like a child in the small wonders of nature you'd forgotten: a trembling leaf, the shape of a cloud.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

求而不得
Stay in My Heart
구이부득 · echo of yearning
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