So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.
May Sarton, Selected Poems.
“I am not ready to die,But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom”
“Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.”
“And now we who are writing women and strange monstersStill search our hearts to find the difficult answers,Still hope that we may learn to lay our handsMore gently and more subtly on the burning sa...”
“But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.”
“...when the petals fallSay it is beautiful and good, say it is well”
“It is time I came back to my real lifeAfter this voyage to an island with no name,Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.”
“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.”
“People dont realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart. J. Krishnamurti. The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any goo...”
“It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten anothers dull ...”