It's been so important that the Chamber of Commerce, for example, has hosted hiring fairs that are specifically targeted to military communities.
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today. ' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good. '
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Disappointment mixed with bitter acceptance flashed in her eyes. "Maybe you are real," she said. "It would require a dark side I don't have to create someone like you. " "You forgot to say 'no offense' before making that statement. " "No, I didn't. I meant offense. " Bold little human, wasn't she? -Annabelle and Zacharel