Devotion
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean-- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
Robert Frost
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean-- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
In four short lines, Frost imagines the heart’s highest form of devotion as something simple and physical: a shore holding its shape against the ocean. The shore never moves, never changes its curve. It stays in one position while the waves repeat against it endlessly.
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