Saturday, August 30, 2008
Hold Out!
Hold Out
Don't squander your precious longing
On what could never fill you.
Hold out!
Hold out for the great heart's desire.
And then spend everything you've got;
Like a drunken sailor in port at last;
Like the river leaping wantonly into the arms of the sea!
- Larry Robinson
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