miss you love poems

Beyond my body my veins are invisible. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. ~American Quaker Saying



A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ~John Tudor



Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford



Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium. ~Ron Bolton



The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ~J. Frank Dobie



Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ~William Lloyd Garrison



The government�s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ~Ronald Reagan



I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081



I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. ~Diana Cortes



Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca



If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow



Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ~Jean Rhys



Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ~W.C. Fields



No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps. ~Charles F. Mullett



History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. ~Joseph Heller, Good as Gold