You Will Never be Alone with a Poet in your Pocket!

I'm currently reading John Adams, a perfectly intriguing book about our famous president. It says that he loves Shakespeare, along with his wife Abigail! "But in his need to fathom the "labyrinth" of human nature, as he said, he was drawn to Shakespeare, and Swift, and was likely to carry... a volume of English poetry with him on his journeys. "You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket," he would tell his son Johnny." (Page 19)

If you noticed, there was not only Shakespeare in there, but also references made to English poetry, and Swift. This is a great book that will transport you to many different places besides the history of our president, John Adams.

What We Are

"We know what we are, but we know not what we may be."
~William Shakespeare

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded."

-Anne Morrow Lindebergh

Time is of the Essence

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand."

-Sonnet Sixty