Poetry Train

“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.”
― Sydney Smith

“Maremna’s high resolve is ta'en-
Faithful till Death to be, unto her vow.”
― Florence Caroline Dixie, Gloriana: or The Revolution of 1900

“History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It’s not the unknown past we’re doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.”
― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

“it does not profit a man that he gain the whole world if he lose his own soul,”
― Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, My Life with the Eskimo