Poem a Day

This above all—to thine own self be true.

-Polonius: Hamlet, I, iii.

The sun,
with all those planets
revolving around it and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes
as if it had nothing else
in the universe to do.

-Galileo Galilei

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

-Michael Faraday

How beautiful to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.

(Spanish Proverb)

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

-Dr. Seuss

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

-Lord Byron

My heart is warm with
The friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not
Be knowing;
Yet there isn’t a train
I wouldn’t take
No matter where it’s going.

-Edna St. Vincent Millay

All theory, dear friend is gray; but the precious Tree of Life is green.

-Goethe

I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam;
that love. Prattle of children powers me home,
my heart claps like the swan’s
under a frenzy of who love me and who shine.

-John Berryman

Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.

-John Keats