ReflectionsThe Rainbow Daughter of Wonder It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from… By Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetryNo Longer Mourn for Me When I am Dead No longer mourn for me when I am dead,Than you shall hear the surly… By William Shakespeare
PoetryWhen I Have Fears When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean’d… By John Keats
PoetryThe Flowers of Your Garden My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars. Your world has broken upon me… By Rabindranath Tagore
PoetryMeeting at Night The gray sea, and the long black land;And the yellow half-moon large and low;… By Robert Browning
QuotationsThe Essence of Greatness The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.… By Ralph Waldo Emerson
ReflectionsEnlarge Not Thy Destiny “Enlarge not thy destiny,” said the oracle: “endeavor not to do more than is given… By Ralph Waldo Emerson
ReligionTo Prove God’s Existence To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from… By Søren Kierkegaard
ReflectionsThe Pathos of Death The pathos of death is this, that when the days of one’s life are ended,… By William James
Letters/ReflectionsLet Life Happen to You You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you,… By Rainer Maria Rilke