“May teaches us that growth comes after patience.”
˜ Emily Dickinson (b. December 10, 1830 – d. May 15, 1886)
Emily Dickinson’s Wisdom on Growth and Patience
Poets
May
“I write because there is something I don’t understand, or something that is haunting me. I write to find consolation. I write to discover in things I once found distressing or even unbearable, a beautiful pattern and shape. I write out of love for the people who inspire me. I write to uncover the sublime that rests inside the ordinary tasks and experiences of every day. I write to make my readers smile or even laugh. I write to keep my readers company. I write so that I can say aloud what I’ve been secretly thinking.”
~Finuala Dowling, South African Poet and Writer (b. June 1962)
January 2025
“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come / Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ~from “Robin Hood and Maid Marion”
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (b. 6 August 1809 – d. 6 October 1892)
Remembrance Day 2024
Lest we forget!
May
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them.
Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
~ Michael Ondaatje (b. 12 September 1943), The English Patient
April
“A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew,
A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning,
Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue—An April day in the morning.”
~ Harriet Prescott Spofford, (b. April 3, 1835 – d. August 14, 1921)
Happy New Year!
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
~ T.S. Eliot (b. 26 September 1888 – d. 4 January 1965)
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