Love after Love ~ Derek Walcott

“ The time will come 

when, with elation 

you will greet yourself arriving 

at your own door, in your own mirror 

and each will smile at the other's welcome, 

and say, sit here. Eat. 

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart 

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you 

all your life, whom you ignored 

for another, who knows you by heart. 

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, 

the photographs, the desperate notes, 

peel your own image from the mirror. 

Sit. Feast on your life” 

~Dereck Walcott

More at  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott

Artwork from Georges Lemmen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemmen

Stop ~ Leo Tolstoy

 “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” 

~ Leo Tolstoy 

More at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

Artwork from Lou Loeber https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Loeber

Reap What You Sow ~ James D. Wilson

 “ You can't instantly reap what you sow today, it does not work like instant grits, no matter what you sow in life it takes time to grow and be ready for harvest” ~James D. Wilson

Artwork from Edmund Leighton  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Leighton 

So many people called James D. Wilson on the internet, I can’t work out which of them wrote this!