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01/18/2005: "More quotes about failure"

Below are two great quotes about failure that can be found in the book Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden. (Another book I heartily recommend.)

"Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt - marvelous error! -
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
From my old failures."
- Antonio Machado
Part of his poem “Last Night As I Was Sleeping”
(version by Robert Bly)

"Imagine the possibility that every single turn of events, however dark or
disappointing the outcome, can in some circuitous way be the raw material
for something that eventually surfaces with the sweetness of honey."
-Roger Housden