Tag Archives: Poets born in May

TCS: Let There Be Peace – So the Broken Can Rise Up and Dance

 Good Morning!   ______________________________ “Kindness has no religion.Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.” ― Amit Ray,Nonviolence: The Transforming Power ________________ If man does find the solution for world peaceit will be the most revolutionary … Continue reading

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TCS: The Value of Bright Shiny Objects and The Meaning of We

Good Morning! _______________________________ “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”— Winston Churchill, UK Prime Minister during WWII ________________ “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a … Continue reading

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TCS: Once the World Was Perfect

Good Morning! ______________________________ “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ― Henry Louis Gates Jr, author of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross ________________ “If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are … Continue reading

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TCS: A Garden of Inexhaustible Language

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposedeither to be or to do. Especially in this country, onetakes on the job—because all that one does in Americais considered a “job”— with no clear sense as to … Continue reading

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TCS: “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone”

Good Morning! __________________________________________ Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. – Thomas Gray Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.– Aristotle

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TCS: Spring’s Perfect Imminent Hour

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “What potent blood hath modest May.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “… honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents …” – Samuel Scoville Jr., … Continue reading

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