Lighting one candle from another - Winter night

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.

Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room.

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color

Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.

Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it.

in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

I can see the headline now: Archangel Busts Were Whisperer.

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

Educate thyself through reading

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.