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Making an Effort

by Piet Hein

Piet Hein

Our so-called limitations,believe,
apply to faculties we don't apply.
We don't discover what we can't achieve
until we make an effort not to try.




Quotes of the Day

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers

• Robert Wyatt



Poems of the Day
  • Amy Lowell
    Absence
    by Amy Lowell
    My cup is empty to-night, Cold and dry are its sides, Chilled by the wind from the open window. Empty and void, it sparkles white in the moonlight. The room is filled with the strange scent