Category Archive: A Slice of Solace

May
03

Thomas Merton

I come by this Slice of Solace through my sister who got it in an email from a friend who received it as a “WORD OF THE DAY” posting from Gratefulness.Org on Thursday, April 19, 2012. You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is …

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Apr
10

John Donne

  Salute the last, and everlasting day,   John Donne from “Ascension,” which appears in John Donne’s Poetry, published by W. W. Norton & Company  

Apr
02

T. S. Eliot

April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire,     T. S. Eliot, from The Wasteland  

Mar
28

Wallace Stevens

Part II From my balcony, I survey the yellow air, Reading where I have written, “The spring is like a belle undressing.”   From “Of the Surface of Things” by Wallace Stevens, which appears in Harmonium, published by Alfred A. Knopf.  

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