Monday, 30 June 2025

Sunday, 29 June 2025

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum 
in which 
the exhibits are meanings 
and the words are labels. 
To switch languages is to change the labels.

Saturday, 28 June 2025

Friday, 27 June 2025

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, 
the police are prowling through the cities, 
the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, 
but the earth is still going round the sun.

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; 
but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty.

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Monday, 23 June 2025

Neither sex, 
without some fertilisation of the complementary characters of the other, 
is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavour.

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Saturday, 21 June 2025

The struggle alone pleases us, 
not the victory.

Friday, 20 June 2025

Thursday, 19 June 2025

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, 
but I have felt it.

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Never give up, 
for that is just the place and time 
that the tide will turn.

Monday, 16 June 2025

Sunday, 15 June 2025

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; 
but make it hot by striking.

Saturday, 14 June 2025

Friday, 13 June 2025

He knows not his own strength 
that has not met adversity.

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Monday, 9 June 2025

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong 
— especially if one is promptly found out.

Sunday, 8 June 2025

Saturday, 7 June 2025

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, 
of which the far greater part of the members 
are poor and miserable.

Friday, 6 June 2025

Thursday, 5 June 2025

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, 
he is endowing the word with life.

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, 
which not all have, 
with an uncommon sense, 
which very few have.

Monday, 2 June 2025

Sunday, 1 June 2025

A man does not know what he is saying 
until he knows what he is not saying.