Poetry Bazaar 3

Best to take the moment present,
as a present for the moment.
----Stephen Sondheim

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say
grace before the concert and the opera, and
grace before the play and pantomime, and
grace before I open a book, and
grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing,
boxing, walking, playing, dancing and
grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
----G. K. Chesterton

Happiness lies in thinking or doing that
which one considers beautiful.
----Hazrat Inayat Khan