Not till the fire is dying in the grate,
Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold,
And the great price we paid for it full worth:
We have it only when we are half earth.
Little avails that coinage to the old!
?George Meredith
. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula
of Romaticism, but throught the closeness
of an imagination that has never broken
kinship with nature. Art must accept such
gifts, and revaluate the giver.
?Alain Locke
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for
happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and
the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are
within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he
chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
?Alexander Solzhenitsyn
