gathering days…two hundred eighty seven.

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The earth laughs in flowers…

I love that quote and have always thought it the artistry of E.E.Cummings.

I was surprised, therefore, to get a little note telling me the author is actually Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his poem Hamatreya.  Truly?  Truly.

It came to me, once again, that I don’t like being wrong.  But I like learning even more, which is good as I’m not right as often as I’d like.

So thank you, to the poetic heart over at   LADY-USKGLASS   

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~ lindasinklings 

Every day one should at least hear one little song,

read one good poem,

see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(via lady-uskglass)

The earth laughs in flowers.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be persuaded, timid soul, that He has loved you too much to cease loving you. 

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~ Francois Fenelon