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How Long

Rumi

How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
The only thing it can take from you is your body.
Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.




Quotes of the Day

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
• Marilyn vos Savant


Poems of the Day
  • Ellis Parker Butler
    The Poor Boy’s Christmas
    by Ellis Parker Butler
    Observe, my child, this pretty scene, And note the air of pleasure keen With which the widow’s orphan boy Toots his tin horn, his only toy. What need of costly gifts has he?