"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you everybody but yourself - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

E. E. Cummings

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Life a Duty

"I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.          
  
Ellen Sturgis Hooper. (1816–1841), American poet