Two Passivists
Eradicate the optimist
who takes the easy view
that human values will persist
no matter what we do.
Annihilate the pessimist
whose ineffectual cry
is that the goal’s already missed
however hard we try.
Two Passivists
Eradicate the optimist
who takes the easy view
that human values will persist
no matter what we do.
Annihilate the pessimist
whose ineffectual cry
is that the goal’s already missed
however hard we try.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
God gives us memory that we may have roses in December.
I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope,…