To live is like to love- all the reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler
Looking after children is one way of looking out for yourself. - Ian McEwan
Scenery is fine- but human nature is finer. - John Keats
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea- ee cummings
*poems 95 'maggie and milly and molly and may'*
*poems 95 'maggie and milly and molly and may'*
I will go back to that great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. -- A C Swinburne
There are only my children, and my love, and the great wide waters, and I am simultaneously awash in the ecstatic love, life!, and terrified with the primal and timeless knowledge of how briefly we are here. Time is short. I must love hard and fierce and well. I must not forget what matters, or be swayed into turning my light toward the darkness: I cannot outshine it! I will turn it toward what is already lit, the faces of my family, the molecule of this planet in body and soil and plant- so that it glows in a blaze so beautiful, I can live, and die by it: i can see the way.
- maggie may ethridge
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / is a wild call and a clear call that may
not be denied. - John Masefield
