Words To Live By

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Someone Once Said

I have a hidden love for poetry. I think all of 2 people knew that about me before this post. I wanted to share one of my favorite poems in the world. It is a poem of hope and comfort. I'm not always good with words but I feel like music and poetry speak so well that I speak in quotes and lyrics often.
In this exert of the poem, Wordsworth applies memories of his early childhood to his adult philosophy of life. When Wordsworth was only eight he lost his mother, and that was the base of the majority of his poetry.
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

~Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
by William Wordsworth


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