Month: August 2018
Today’s Quote by Fellini on Enthusiasm
You have to live spherically – in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm – and things will come your way.
“A Thing of Beauty” Poem by John Keats
A Thing of Beauty
by John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its lovliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o’er-darkn’d ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
‘Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven’s brink.
“The Stars Are Mansions Built by Nature’s Hand,” Poem by Wordsworth
The Stars Are Mansions Built by Nature’s Hand
By William Wordsworth
THE stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand,
And, haply, there the spirits of the blest
Dwell, clothed in radiance, their immortal vest;
Huge Ocean shows, within his yellow strand,
A habitation marvellously planned,
For life to occupy in love and rest;
All that we see–is dome, or vault, or nest,
Or fortress, reared at Nature’s sage command.
Glad thought for every season! but the Spring
Gave it while cares were weighing on my heart,
‘Mid song of birds, and insects murmuring;
And while the youthful year’s prolific art–
Of bud, leaf, blade, and flower–was fashioning
Abodes where self-disturbance hath no part.
Something to Think About
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
Are you aware of your dark side? Is it something that frightens or inspires you? Have you made friends with your dark side?
Our dark side can be a friend in many circumstances. Can you think of a time when you needed your dark side to make something good happen?
Today’s Quote by Erri De Luca on Criticism
Build your house with the stones they hurled at you
Today’s Quote on Life’s Meaning
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
Matthew Arnold
“The Child Is Father To the Man” Poem by GErard Manley Hopkins
“The child is father to the man.’
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
‘The child is father to the man.’
No; what the poet did write ran,
‘The man is father to the child.’
‘The child is father to the man!’
How can he be? The words are wild.”
Excerpt From
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Now First Published
Gerard Manley Hopkins
