quotations to nourish the soul ...

This is when blogs justify themselves - to be able to share with everyone, or no one, but to preserve for me, a particularly beautiful quotation. This, by Oliver Wendell Holmes:

"Poets are never young, their delicate ears hear the far-off whispers of eternity ..."

Maybe I should take a second look at poets and poetry ...... anything this beautiful should be understood to be fully appreciated.

My daughter would have the perfect photo to compliment these words -