i will miss you poems

My feet have several thousand meetings scheduled with the dirt on a trail not far from here. Who am I to keep them waiting? Time to run. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906


What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro


There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ~James Thurber


Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Indian Proverb


Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~Eva Gabor


A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~Rene Char


You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. ~Stephen King, The Stand


There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill


Short A: I respect your privacy, please read the long answer as well.


Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart


You're not dumb, or stupid, just thoroughly wrong. ~Jerry Kopke


Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919


There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897


Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. ~William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1601


Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown


Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue. ~Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978


A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race


Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ~Paul Eldridge


The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962