W.B Yeats “When You Are Old” is a poem by W.B. Yeats that reflects on love and aging, urging the addressee to remember their past beauty and the true love that transcends superficial admiration. It is often interpreted as a poignant reminder of the deeper connections in life. Verses below. By William Butler Yeats When you… Read More When You Are Old.
By Karl Keating, New Oxford Review “…I have a favorite line from Pope Leo XIII. It’s from Rerum Novarum (1891), the first of the social encyclicals. Nearly every pope since his time has written one or more social encyclicals. The line I remember isn’t quite as Leo wrote it. Often we remember lines a little… Read More A Life’s Worth of Failure, an Abundance of Gratitude
Day after day a million confused emotions ebbed and flowed and sometimes clashed within him. After a time, when he had come to feel particularly ill, and knew that he would soon be placing himself into Hospice, he wondered what he should do at last. It is said that there are two kinds of people:… Read More Seeing The First time
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