Quotes From the Twelve Caesars (4)
This will be my last post on Julius Caesar (the first of the twelve Caesars). We’ll be moving on to Augustus soon enough! Julius Caesar was an enigmatic r...
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Quote From the Twelve Caesars (3)
Julius Caesar was certainly a man of paradoxes, both in his own time, and in the annals of history. Suetonius writes in The Twelve Caesars of Caesar’s app...
Quote From the Twelve Caesars (2)
The year was 49 BC. Caesar had a choice to make. Start a civil war in the Roman Republic or obey the orders of the Senate to give up his armies. Caesar was appa...
Quote: The Twelve Caesars
This is from Chapter One of Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars. I’m reading the translation by Robert Graves, one of my favorite poets. Here is the quote...
Secret Garden
We dallied in the secret garden, Our sitting legs variously crossed and uncomposed. And our children played. My child. And yours. Naked essence unaware, Of the ...
Last Words
He often wondered what his last words would be. His very last thought. The last idea to emanate from his mind before he died. While he held her wrinkled old han...
Haiku: Temple
Build your temple not, in space. But in the moment, where it never falls.
Haiku: Isms
Prisms of isms, Logic self-perpetuates, But never answers.
Flower to Form
How can what is Never not be? I was born … I know. I will die … I know. How can something be What ever always is? A thousand times I lived this life. A thousand...
Once Written
Once written, its meaning is lost. Once spoken, the words go unheard. Once seen, it may not be seen again. Therefore, hold fast to Truth. As one would the hand ...