Pagans exalt sacred things,
the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Earth Is The Lord's
Poetry, thoughts, and quotations to help get us through the night.
Pagans exalt sacred things,
the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Earth Is The Lord's
Answer July—
Where is the Bee—
Where is the Blush—
Where is the Hay?
Ah, said July—
Where is the Seed—
Where is the Bud—
Where is the May—
Answer Thee—Me—
Nay—said the May—
Show me the Snow—
Show me the Bells—
Show me the Jay!
Quibbled the Jay—
Where be the Maize—
Where be the Haze—
Where be the Bur?
Here—said the Year—
Emily Dickinson
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity,
the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.
They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish, Life magazine 1960
Have a heart that never hardens,
and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery,
a metaphor for a proof,
a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths,
and oneself for an oracle,
is inborn in us.
Paul Valery, The Method of Leonardo da Vinci
It has been said that history repeats itself. T
his is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.
Theodor Reik, The Unreachables