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Weep not that the world changes--did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Weep not that the world changes--did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, read more
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down.
That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light
Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons.
I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance read more
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.