This is how he grows:
by being defeated, decisively,
by greater and greater beings.
--Ranier Maria Wilke (1875-1926)
I think, therefore I am... confused. --Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh
“If you’ve got a heart at all, someday it will kill you.” —Rita Dove, poet
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.…