The sunlight on the garden / Hardens and grows cold, / We cannot cage the minute / Within its nets of gold,... (read more)
The opening poem (one of my all-time faves) couldn't be more apt. It went through my head so many times as Josh and I traveled through Spain. The third verse haunted me as we climbed up into the sky, amid the awesome construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia.... (read more)
"My world back after a year, my lost lost world / Like a cropping deer strayed near my path again, /Bewaring the mind's least clutch, turning, I kissed her... (read more)
"From too much love of living, / From hope and fear set free, / We thank with brief thanksgiving / Whatever gods may be / That no life lives for ever; / That dead men rise up never; / That even the weariest river / Winds somewhere safe to sea." ... (read more)
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope."... (read more)
I saw my first poppy today, while running around the edge of Trafalgar Square. I saw three poppies on my run. The first roasted chestnut vendors are also out, as of last week.... (read more)
I am not yet born; O hear me, / Let not the man who is beast or who thinks he is God / Come near me.... (read more)
"Calm soul of all things! make it mine / To feel, amid the city's jar, / That there abides a peace of thine, / Man did not make, and cannot mar." - Matthew Arnold... (read more)
Since the periodicity of my long-running quotations series has been getting asymptotic with infinity, here are the quotes that have been piling up since the last edition... (read more)
With a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan, here are Christopher Hitchens's Ten Commandments Reimagined.... (read more)
