All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right
And emptiness above –
Know that you aren’t alone
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
Nov 212010
Nov 212010
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Nov 212010
adj. Merely mechanical; routine; ordinary, not refined; used pejoratively.
contempt for the banausic occupations – T. S. Eliot:
“a sensitive, self-conscious creature . . . in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment” (London Magazine).
being implicated in the banausic business of paid employment which the Greeks traditionally found so distasteful”
Nov 212010
“Would you tell me please, which way I ought to walk from here?”
“That depends a great deal on where you want to go, ” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where — “, said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you walk,” said the Cat.
Nov 202010
J’ai dit souvent que tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne avoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre.
I have often said that all man’s unhappiness came from one thing, that is, not to know how to remain quietly in a room.