Jason Throckmorton

Today

By Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight
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There are the things we fear that we should, and the things that we should fear but don’t.

Most people fear dying. Most people don’t fear, don’t care, that they are living a kind of death.

Agrippinus, one of the great Stoics of Nero’s time, refused to compromise his belief or to keep a low profile even though it put him in danger of running afoul of