love you baby poems

When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Primitive tribes were certainly convinced that the spirit, having escaped from the body at death, retained a replica of its earthly tenement. They therefore used tattoo marks as a means of identification in the next world and a passport to future happiness. ~Ronald Scutt



Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996



Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne



We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~Charles Caleb Colton



I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, November 1939



The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein



For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey



For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb



The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self



If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. ~Letty Cottin Pogrebin



No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. ~Thomas Carlyle, "Count Cagliostro," 1833



Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~Buckminster Fuller, 1972



I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~Lou Reed



Education should be exercise; it has become massage. ~Martin H. Fischer



Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon



It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown



People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan People living deeply have no fear of death. ~Anaiis Nin, Diary, 1967



Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter