Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
There is no caste in blood.
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.