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| MY FAVORITE POETRY AND QUOTES |
| FIRST, A SAMPLING OF THE QUOTES... |
| And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince" |
| Men have forgotten this truth... But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince" |
| NOW, A COUPLE OF POEMS... |
| In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it "Because it is bitter, "And because it is my heart." ~ Stephen Crane |
| I resemble everyone but myself, and sometimes see in shop-windows, despite the well-known laws of optics, the portrait of a stranger, date unknown, often signed in a corner by my father. ~ A.K. Ramanujan |
| A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist! "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me "A sense of obligation." ~ Stephen Crane |
| THE WALKING MAN OF RODIN Legs hold a torso away from the earth. And a regular high poem of legs is here. Powers of bone and cord raise a belly and lungs Out of ooze and over the loam where the eyes look and ears hear The arms have a chance to hammer and shoot and run motors. You make us Proud of our legs, old man. And you left off the head here, The skull found always crumbling neighbor of the ankles. ~ Carl Sandburg |
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