If

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 451 views

written by Rudyard Kipling

if you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you.
but make allowance for their doubting too;
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Auguries of Innocence

Monday, January 14th, 2008 889 views

William Blake

To see a World in a grain of sand
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

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On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

Monday, January 14th, 2008 394 views

Walter Savage Landor

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife;
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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When You are Old

Monday, January 14th, 2008 2,113 views

William Butler Yeats 

WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep  
  And nodding by the fire, take down this book,  
  And slowly read, and dream of the soft look  
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;  

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The Road Not Taken

Monday, January 14th, 2008 888 views

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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The Hundred Languages of Children: Narrative of the Possible

Monday, January 14th, 2008 2,134 views

Loris Malaguzzi

The child is made of one hundred.
The child has a hundred languages
a hundred hands
a hundred thoughts
a hundred ways of thinking
of playing, of speaking.
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