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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good read more
The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the read more
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our read more
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.