100 Day Project – Days 9 and 10
DAY 9 (May 19th, 2017) On His Blindness When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death...
Category: Literature
100 Day Project – Days 7 and 8
DAY 7 (May 17th, 2017) Into My Heart an Air That Kills Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What sp...
100 Day Project – Days 5 and 6
DAY 5 (May 15th, 2017) Chinese Poet Among Barbarians The rain drives, drives endlessly, Heavy threads of rain; The wind beats at the shutters, The surf drums on...
100 Day Project – Days 3 and 4
DAY 3 (May 13, 2017) Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail:— The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Come to me in his fatal rounds, And sai...
100 Day Project – Days 1 and 2
DAY 1 (May 11, 2017 The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter’s dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The ...
My 100 Day Project
By chance, I learned about the 100 Day Project from a Facebook post. The idea intrigues me, so I’m going to try it. In a nutshell, the idea is to do somet...
Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke (2)
Quoted in Lou Salome’s You Alone Are Real to Me: I stand as if blind and in total darkness because my look no longer finds its way to you. The mad rush of...
Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke
From Duino Elegies, First Elegy: Voices, voices. Listen, my heart, as before now only saints had listened, while that vast call raised them off the ground; yet ...
Quotes From Where Angels Fear To Tread
From Chapter III, 2nd paragraph: The ground floor and the upper floor of that battered house are alike deserted, and the inmates keep to the central portion, ju...
The Small Boat
There is something peculiar in a small boat upon the wide sea. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. Wh...