Indeed, Such Love Is Like A Smoky FireIn A Cold Morning; Though The Fire Be Cheerful.Yet Is The Smoke

Indeed, such love is like a smoky fire In a cold morning; though the fire be cheerful. Yet is the smoke so sour and cumbersome, ’Twere better lose the fire than find the smoke: Such an attendant then as smoke to fire. Is jealousy to love.

All's Well That Ends Well (?)

so we find Bacon writing that philosophy as a study is not idle, because all professions are served from it. ‘For if you will have a tree bear more fruit than it hath used to do, it is not anything you can do to the boughs, but it is the stirring of the earth and putting of new mould about the roots that must work it.' Or again, later, he says, ‘Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science … as we have done of the rest . . . ’

Diseases in plants too— especially canker in roses — he resents their destruction of beauty. In his imagination the disease is continually affecting and damaging the plant exactly as evil passions or repressions destroy the human being. Jealousy is the ‘canker that eats up Love’s tender spring’

Translation of the Hippocratic Oath

Translated by Michael North, National Library of Medicine, 2002.

I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this contract: To hold him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to be a partner in life with him, and to fulfill his needs when required; to look upon his offspring as equals to my own siblings, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or contract; and that by the set rules, lectures, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to students bound by this contract and having sworn this Oath to the law of medicine, but to no others. I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion. In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art. I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft. Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men, whether they are free men or slaves. Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private. So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully and the practice of my art, gaining the respect of all men for all time. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate.

my poems about star signs

aries, taurus, gemini

cancer, leo, virgo

libra, scorpio, sagittarius

In the act of thinking anything, metonymies, metaphors, anecdotes, illustrations historical or fantastic, start up in his mind, become incorporate with his primary thought, and are in fact, its language. A study of the imagery is thus a stepping-stone to the study of the thought. Metaphor and symbol are the language of poetry.

The Imagery of Thomas De Quincy's Impassioned Prose - Dwyer (1965)