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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits, – so much help By so much reading. it is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth – ‘T is then we get the right good [...]
Quotes About Books II
Monday, July 28th, 2008A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large, –where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the [...]
Self-Protrait
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM), House of Prayer and Formation,no.49, Holland Road. SELF-PORTRAIT By David Whyte It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or see it in others. I want to know if you are prepared [...]
The Road Not Taken
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874-1963) TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having [...]
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