“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.” ― Homer After a long period of absence, and having found this site again; H...

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” ― Euripides, ‘Orestes’ Welcome to the Travel Tue...

“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight. For the greatest tragedy of them all, Is never to feel the burning light.” – Osc...

“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau   For this week’s theme Poets United has set it...

“The great beauty and striking presence of Venus led to an association by the Greeks with Aphrodite, goddess of beauty and love. Inanna...

“Cold blows the wind against the hill, And cold upon the plain; I sit me by the bank, until The violets come again.” - Richard Garnett ...

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle In ancient Greek the word for butterfly is “ psyché ”, the same ...

“There’s rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savour all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.” - William Shakespeare (W...

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucius Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tr...

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” - Pablo Picasso Raphael (Italian in full, Raffa...

“Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.” - Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau was a French poe...