Chris Breen's Resource Pages

Home | Current Work | Favourite Poems and Quotations | Other Teaching Articles, Diagrams and Links | Some Interesting Links and Sources | My Early Articles (pre 1994) | My Recent Articles | Student Writing








Favourite Poems and Quotations

Please let me know at chris.breen@uct.ac.za if you don't find the poem or quotation that you were looking for on this page.

Broken Images

Bly - Bad Information

Maturana: The Student's Prayer

David Waggoner: Lost

Goleman: Failing to notice

Lenny Bruce: hugs and kisses

Kierkegaard: The Point of View

Robert Bly: Shadow

Neruda: To Keep Quiet

Yeats: A Prayer for Old Age

A.R. Ammons: Don't establish the boundaries first

Walcott: Love after Love

Blake: Eternity in an Hour

Mary Oliver: The Summer Day

T S Eliot: Little Gidding V

Neruda: La Poesia

Rilke: On Questions

Rilke: Sometimes a man stands up

Portia Nelson: Autobiography

David Whyte: Sweet Darkness

Davis: Space of the possible

Stanley Kunitz: Remembrance - "Layers"

Thomas Szasz: Every act of conscious learning ...

GBS: True Joy of Life

De Mello: Fear and Anger

Pema Chodron: Breathing In and Out

Rumi: Showing Off

Dee Hock: On Resisting Change

Robert Bly: Opposites

Seamus Heaney: Digging