Poem a Day

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

-Henry David Thoreau

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

-Adrienne Rich

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This is one of my all time favourite poems. <3

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.

-William Blake

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…And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.

-Wendell Berry

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Sorry for not posting yesterday. I was in bed almost all day, and I also had a ton of homework I needed to catch up on. I got to the site, but first there was some error, and then .. well at least I thought I clicked the publish button. So here’s two for today. :] Enjoy.

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A light heart lives long.

-William Shakespeare

Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.

-A.E. Housman

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much the heart can hold.

-Zelda Fitzgerald

Sometimes I go about pitying myself,
and all the time
I am being carried on great winds across the sky.

-Ojibway

Résumé

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

-Dorothy Parker

EDIT: I have received a request to remove this Robert Frost poem as it is still under copyright.