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This Aloneness

Rumi

This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
To be one with the truth for just a moment,
Is worth more than the world and life itself.




Quotes of the Day

Love is done when Love's begun,
Sages say,
But have Sages known?
Truth adjourn your Boon
Without Day.

• Emily Dickinson



Poems of the Day
  • Carl Sandburg
    Blizzard Notes
    by Carl Sandburg
    I DON’T blame the kettle drums—they are hungry. And the snare drums—I know what they want—they are empty too. And the harring booming bass drums—they are hungriest of all.. . .