Marc Gilbert-Widmann

Tag: World Literature

  • Quote of the Day 20 March 2014 ~ Spring Fever

    “It’s spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” — Mark Twain Related articles Mark Twain no less! Mark Twain quotes February brings Spring…

  • The Changing Face of my Dreams – 24 February 2014

    I don’t mean to be a tease, but the meat of this writing is under Thoreau… “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” “Things do not change, we do.” “Be not simply good,…

  • Poetry of the Day 03 February 2014 – Alone

    Alone From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I…

  • Quote of the Day 17 October 2013 – Traits We Detest

    “It always seemed strange to me… the thing we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they…