Quote for Today: Albert Camus
Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of …
Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of …
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, …
– Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. —Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg – Image …
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until …
You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn’t that far to go. Or the time …
Day 26, Melanie Shank returns to bring us Central Park at Dusk by Sara Teasdale, a beautiful, short snapshot of Central Park in NYC, a place where you could find …
40 days of poetry, Day 14: the poem today is Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Ulysses. It’s about the challenge of aging and the desire to go out with adventurousness rather than …
After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood, remote from the world of stern and ludicrous adults. We were bored, we were restless, we longed …
The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, …
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off …