At the end of his life, a poet thinks, I have been plunging into so many of the obsessions and stupid ideas of my epoch, it would be necessary to put me in a bathtub and scrub me until all the dirt was washed away. And yet, only because of the dirt could I be a poet of the 20th century. And perhaps the good Lord wanted it, so I was of use to him.
Czeslaw Milosz
Nature has given (humans) one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
Hope is a risk that must be run. George Bernanos
An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her hadwritten instructions for her memorial service, she wrote, "They wouldn't take me out while I was alive, I don't want them to take me out when I'm dead."
How many bipolars does it take to change a light bulb? One, but I'm not crazy about it. author
Why did the bipolar cross the road? To get to the other sides. author |
