• G K Chesterton

    The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

  • William Butler Yeats

    He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge

    I wander by the edge Of this desolate lake
    Where wind cries in the sedge:
    Until the axle break
    That keeps the stars in their round,
    And hands hurl in the deep
    The banners of East and West,
    And the girdle of light is unhound,
    Your breast will not lie by the breast
    Of your beloved in sleep.

  • Dag Hammarskjold

    There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life’s point of no return.

  • Ambrose Bierce

    Edible – good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

  • William Blake

    He who would do good to another must do it in the Minute Particular. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

  • Freda Downie

    Starlight

    Three kings embark on a long journey
    Under the dry acres of the moon
    Whose light is well disposed,
    But of no special significance
    It is the nailhead light
    Of one sparky planet
    That draws them on –
    Although at times,
    One king thinks the star
    Has the look of crayon
    Drawn on dark paper;
    While another thinks it
    Looks no more than a sliver
    Of silver pasted on indigo;
    And the third king, observing
    A certain unsteadiness,
    Thinks the heavenly guide
    Trembles on its cotton thread

  • U A Fanthorpe

    BC : AD

    This was the moment when Before
    Turned into After, and the future’s
    Uninvented timekeepers presented arms.
    This was the moment when nothing
    Happened. Only dull peace
    Sprawled boringly over the earth.
    This was the moment when even energetic Romans
    Could find nothing better to do
    Than counting heads in remote provinces.
    And this was the moment
    When a few farm workers and three
    Members of an obscure Persian sect
    Walked haphazard by starlight straight
    Into the kingdom of heaven.

  • Dale E Turner

    It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

  • Plato

    Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned;
    Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes.

  • Clifton Fadiman

    A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.

  • Tukaram

    A Good Poem

    A good poem is like finding a hole
    in the palace
    wall–
    never know what you
    might
    see.

  • Carl Sandburg

    Fog

    The fog comes
    on little cat feet.

    It sits looking
    over harbor and city
    on silent haunches
    and then moves on.

  • Piet Hein

    Simply Assisting God

    I am a humble artist
    moulding my earthly clod,
    adding my labour to nature’s,
    simply assisting God.

    Not that my effort is needed;
    yet somehow, I understand,
    my maker has willed it that I too should have
    unmoulded clay in my hand.