“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” ― William Butler Yeats
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
On aging and family
"We often write seldomest to those whom we love the
most. The distance to which I am removed
has given a new value to all I valued before in my country, and the day of my
return will be the happiest I expect to
see in this life……
I find as I grow older
that I love those most whom I loved first.”
[Thomas Jefferson writing from Paris France to his
sister, Mary Jefferson Bolling, July 23, 1787]
(Thomas Jefferson: and intimate history, Fawn Brody)
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