Could we but draw back the curtains That surround each other's lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives, Often we should find it better, Purer than we judged we should, We should love each other better, If we only understood. Could we judge all deeds by motives, See th…
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one re…
Here’s an interesting form of murder we come up with: assassination. You know what’s interesting about assassination? Well not only does it change those popularity polls in a big hurry, but it’s also interesting to notice who it is we assassinate. Did you ever notice who it is? Stop to think about…
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow — You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a…
I think I'd like you better, Star, If you were not so high and far, So many friendly things are found Quite near the ground. I wonder if I saw you near Would you appear So very fine; I hope you would Be just as pretty, bright, and good— Not like some that only are Fine and true when seen from far.…
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gau…
One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, or if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oat…
Begin each day by telling yourself… today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will and selfishness. All of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part, I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature o…
Every single day I get emails from aspiring writers asking my advice about how to become a writer, and here is the only advice I can give: Don’t make stuff because you want to make money, it will never make you enough money. Don’t make stuff because you want to get famous, because you will never fe…
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility – We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess – in the Ring – We pass…
There is cause for many stings, In the way some folks do things, Some go at it "hammer 'n' tongs," Some with curses, some with songs; But to each some trait belongs, Some have soured on everything, Can't find aught without a sting, There are others not so sour, Who find on every thorn a flower, And…
Could we but draw back the curtains That surround each other's lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives, Often we should find it better, Purer than we judged we should, We should love each other better, If we only understood. Could we judge all deeds by motives, See th…