Always I knew that it could not last (Gathering clouds and the snowflakes flying), Now it is part of a golden past (Darkening skies and the night-wind sighing) It is but cowardice to pretend Cover with ashes our cold love’s crater- Always I’ve known that it had to end Sooner or later Always I knew [...]
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Nocturne
Posted in Books on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One Art
Posted in Books on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, [...]
Posted in Books on August 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I wanted to run away from everything, but I wanted to run towards something too”
of Living
Posted in Books on July 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven’t they?- that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,- “Why do ye trouble me with your looks?” And you seem to see numbers of tomorrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they [...]
Is this Love?
Posted in Books on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ADAM “Should God create another Eve and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart. No! No! I feel The link of nature draw me, flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.” … “However, I with [...]
What is Man?
Posted in Books on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? – [...]
Noumenon
Posted in Books on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Noumenon |ˈnoōməˌnän|noun ( pl. -na |-nə|)(in Kantian philosophy) A thing as it is in itself, as distinct from a thing as it is knowable by the senses through phenomenal attributes
The Vale of Soul Making
Posted in Books on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“–The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and superstitious is ‘a vale of tears’ from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary interposition of God and taken to Heaven–What a little circumscribed straightened notion! call the world if you Please ‘The vale of Soul-making’ Then you will find out the [...]
Posted in Books on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again — my Life seems to stop there — I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving — I should be [...]
Hardy is kiasu too
Posted in Books on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
” Pessimism (or rather, what is called such) is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having thought of what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arises, as they may, life [...]
