Poetry Train

“it does not profit a man that he gain the whole world if he lose his own soul,”
― Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, My Life with the Eskimo

“Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge”
― John E. Wordslinger

“Take up the White Man’s burden,
And teach the Philippines
What interest and taxes are
And what a mortgage means.
Give them electrocution chairs,
And prisons, too, galore,
And if they seem inclined to kick,
Then spill their heathen gore.
They need our labor question, too,
And politics and fraud—
We’ve made a pretty mess at home,
Let’s make a mess abroad.”
― Ernest Crosby

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva