“Get rid of everything in your wardrobe that is not white. Stop sleeping on a soft pillow. Sell your musical instruments and stop eating white bread. You cannot take warm baths,... Read More »
From lightning and tempest; from earthquake, fire, and flood; from plague, pestilence, and famine . . . from oppression, conspiracy, and rebellion; from violence, battle, and murder;... Read More »
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid... Read More »
“With [God's] left hand he governs the world through the ordinances of the word. And now he has suddenly removed his left hand, and we are committed with an unparalleled... Read More »
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public,... Read More »
Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau: [1]
Mock on, Mock on; ’tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.
~William Blake
Scripture:... Read More »