Author: Henry David Thoreau (---.hsd1.mi.comcast.net)
Date: 11-26-05 17:17
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Life is too deep for words, so don\'t try to describe it, just live it.
- C.S. Lewis, In Humanity
CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confin\'d doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur\'d,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assur\'d,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes,
Since, spite of him, I\'ll live in this poor rime,
While he insults o\'er dull and speechless tribes:
And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
When tyrants\' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
--William Shakespeare
There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people
call it love.
Edvard Munch
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet
remain
lonesome.
T. S. Eliot