How Lovely the Ruins Quotes

“He tells her that the earth is flat— He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He stands his ground. The planet goes on being round.”
― Spiegel & Grau, How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times

“hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
― Spiegel & Grau, How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times

“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”
― Spiegel & Grau, How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times

“What color is the underside of skin? Not so bad, to die, if we could be opened into this— if the smallest chambers of ourselves, similarly, revealed some sky.”
― Spiegel & Grau, How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times

“DIFFERENCES OF OPINION Wendy Cope I HE TELLS HER He tells her that the earth is flat—He knows the facts, and that is that. In altercations fierce and long She tries her best to prove him wrong. But he has learned to argue well. He calls her arguments unsound And often asks her not to yell. She cannot win. He stands his ground. The planet goes on being round.”
― Spiegel & Grau, How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times