My favourite line is...

Perfection straineth out
the quality of mercy,
withers rapture at its
birth.

"Perfection, Perfection"
~Kilian McDonnell,

As seen on: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/02/27

Well, now I think I'm beginning to know what mother meant...

...when she would quote this portion of a poem to me on numerous an occasion...

II

Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fingers while she talks.
"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands";
(slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at situations which it cannot see."
I smile, of course,
And go on drinking tea.
"Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the Spring,
I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful, after all."

Portrait of a Lady
~T.S. Eliot

As can be read in its entirely at: http://www.bartleby.com/198/2.html

And my favourite line is...

there's never going to be anything
straight or predictable
about your path
.
.
.
"The Kama Sutra of Kindness: Position Number 3"
~ Mary Mackey

As seen on: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/02/21

SQOTD

I was telling Squink he had to hurry and get dressed as we had to leave for a funeral in 30 minutes...

Squink: What is a funeral?

Me: Well, it is a kind of party we throw when someone dies. The first part is were we are all sad and miss them. The second part is where we have fun and remember the person and the happy times with them.

Squink: So, it is like time out and then a birthday party?

My favourite line is...

Rather than arguing about whether Giordano Bruno
Was right or not, it might be better to fall silent
And lose ourselves in the curved energy.

"What Did We See Today?"
~Robert Bly

As seen on: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/02/18