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August 28, 2007
Quote of the Day: Failure
Here they are, from Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden:
"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
So, this is me, waiting for God to make sweet honeycombs out of all my failures.
Posted by Selena at August 28, 2007 12:01 PM