NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 776

 

·       “If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim
of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.” ~ Pablo Neruda, “The Sea and the Bells”

• ·       “Do not go gentle into that good night,
  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ~ Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”

  ·       “I was much further out than you thought
  And not waving but drowning.” ~ Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning”

  ·       “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” ~ Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”

  ·       “That you are here—that life exists, and identity;
  That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.” ~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.” ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet