Thursday, August 18, 2011

Indomitable Torch of the Mundane

A L O H A !







" A writer uses a pen
 instead of a scalpel
 or blow torch. "

Michael Ondaatje 






" I quote others
 only in order the better
 to express myself. "

Michel de Montaigne 










Indomitable Torch of the Mundane


" We cannot hold a torch
 to light another's path 
without brightening our own. "


Ben Sweetland 










“Only God, my dear,

Could love you for yourself alone

And not your yellow hair.”

 William Butler Yeats



 

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“Life is no brief candle to me.
 It is a sort of splendid torch
 which I have got a hold of 
for the moment,
 and I want to make it burn
 as brightly as possible
 before handing it on
to future generations.”

 George Bernard Shaw 




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Together
we walk;

we talk
you & I

How jolly!

walking together

You & I.
  
             JOLLY! warmly, cloudia