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Yield who will to their separation, my object in living is to unite
my avocation and my vocation as my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one, and the work is played for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done for Heaven and the future's sakes. --Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.
It has to face the men of the time and to meet
The women of the time. It has to think about war
And it has to find what will suffice. It has
To construct a new stage...
--Wallace Stevens, Of Modern Poetry
The main justification for a university campus in an age of telecommunications and multimedia technology is the occasion it provides for .. the exchange of words among a community of learners and the development of a personal relationship between the teacher and the student.... a virtual university that trafficks in what Socrates calls the "shadow" of animate speech may produce information, mnemonics and compliance, but not the knowledge, memory and commitment that blossom in the gardens of a real Academy. --Robert Pogue Harrison
Give more to the soil than you take away. --Capek, A Gardener's Year
60th birthday poems (for Barbara and Michael)
Pierre Hadot, The Present Alone is our Happiness
