Month: April 2021

An aphorism is a poem that travels quickly with a place to go.

If Death had visited Shakespeare in 1596 and given him two options — die in 20 years and be praised for centuries or die in 25 years and be lost to history — Shakespeare would have chosen the former. But if Death had come to Shakespeare on the day of his passing in 1616 with a similar offer — die now and be remembered or live another five years and be forgotten — he might have chosen the latter.

The closer to sunset, the longer the shadow.

The world’s rarest punctuation mark is the necessary semicolon.

Most old men have few enemies.