Monday, 23 January 2012

Time, that which he called the best counsellor, proved him right



"What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone momuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

Pericles, Statesman, orator, general of Athens, promoter of the arts, culture and literature (495 - 429 BC)

Friday, 20 January 2012

Ici



« Ton ici est mon ailleurs, »
dit le voyageur,
à celle dont le cœur,
épris, pleure.
Et sur l'heure,
elle sourit.

« Je suis ici et ailleurs, »
dit-elle sans pudeur,
à celui qui vit,
sans heurts,
là où l'on meurt,
puis revit.

« Voyageur,
je te suis ici. »

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Perhaps I will be an enchanter too, one day.


"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes."


Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Middles

  Someone once wrote that all beginnings and all endings of the things we do are untidy Vast understatement if you ask me as all the middles...