Archive for February, 2006

Don Paterson

« 28 February 2006 | 11:05 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

A poem is a little machine for remembering itself



Alfred Tennyson

« 27 February 2006 | 10:11 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

From Ode to Memory
Thou who stealest fire,
From the fountains of the past,
To glorify the present, oh, haste,
Visit my low desire!
Strengthen me, enlighten me!
I faint in this obscurity,
Thou dewy dawn of memory.



Benjamin Franklin

« 26 February 2006 | 11:47 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

The way to be safe is never to be secure.



Alfred Noyes

« 25 February 2006 | 8:28 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Highwayman
PART ONE
I
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The [...]



Mary Wollstonecraft

« 24 February 2006 | 11:46 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.



Herbert Hoover

« 23 February 2006 | 7:08 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

Be patient and calm – for no one can catch fish in anger.