“Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (1792-1822).
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Ogden Nash: Marriage
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. “
—Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971).
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One-Way Street: Dragging wet feet
Congrats! You’re the owner of a new time machine. The catch? It comes in two models, each traveling one way only: the past OR the future. Which do you choose, and why?
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Robin Williams: Poetry, beauty, romance, love
“Poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.”
~Robin Williams.
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Vijay Seshadri: Impossibility
Square root (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The soul, like the square root of minus 1, is an impossibility that has its uses.”
~Vijay Seshadri.
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Plato: Poetry
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ”
—Plato.Plato. Luni marble, copy of the portrait made by Silanion ca. 370 BC for the Academia in Athens. From the sacred area in Largo Argentina, 1925. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Robert Frost: Poetry
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ”
—Robert Frost
