My Small Boat

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

What Love is Like
Love is like
a pineapple,
sweet and
undefinable.

Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair or the future of the human race.
Found here
My new bicycle here

A Clear Midnight
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Favourite
When they ask me, “Who’s your favourite poet?”
I’d better not mention you,
Though you certainly are my favourite poet
And I like your poems too.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.