"a valiant armor of scarred hopes outworn..."

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

"The truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind--"

- Emily Dickinson

"The rain is full of ghosts tonight,

that tap and sigh

Upon the glass and listen for reply."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Tragedy, comedy, valor and truth,

Courage, constancy, heroism, failure--

All in the loom, and oh what patterns!"

- Edgar Lee Masters

...

pictures from the fountain

outside of Philadelphia's museum of art

January, 2009.

and a few of my favorite

random

beautiful

quotes.

inspired by delicious, gray, cold weather.

making this, I suppose, my new year's resolution.

to read

and remember

and love beauty.

...

"I'll set you as a seal upon my heart

as a seal upon my arm

for there is love that is as strong as death

jealousy demanding as the grave..."

- Song of Songs