Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Daily Shakespeare devotional

Glendower:

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

Hotspur:

Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?

--Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 1

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Daughters of His Quiver

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms. -- Thomas More

He shot into my veins the daughters of his quiver. We danced our way to Purgatory. I met my soul returning; you are welcome into the house you have built.