January 2010
76 posts
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
– Winston S Churchill
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...
– Roald Dahl
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little...
– Robert Frost
For JP, in memory of American Gods.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t...
– Gilda Radner
Empty Chairs
anthonybergen:
You’re looking at the chair that Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when John Wilkes Booth sent a lead bullet smashing through his skull, tearing through his brain, terminating the thoughts and words and ideas of a man whose intelligence and creativity and strength and ingenuity helped him rise from nothing to everything, allowed him to capture his nation’s highest office, gave him...
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
– Oscar Wilde