Davide Massimo

“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death.
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Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“In time you shall see Fate approach you
In the shape of your own image in the mirror.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“Home is behind, the world ahead,
and there are many paths to tread
through shadows to the edge of night,
until the stars are all alight.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings