Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,

I would still plant my apple tree.

 

Quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

 

 

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'Hope' is the thing with feathers-

that perches in the soul...

 

Quotation by Emily Dickenson

 

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He who has health, has hope:

and he who has hope, has everything.

 

Arabian Proverb

 

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Our aspirations are our possibilities.

 

Quote by Robert Browning

 

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HOPE

Two of them, sharing a green park bench,

Their heads bent, talking and eating chips;

One gorging, one pecking like a small bird

And dabbing her lips 

 

With a tissue. One, seventy, glasses, white hair,

And one, in a Blackburn shirt, is eight:

The future talking to the past

About love and hate

 

And discussing, earnestly, right and wrong

And setting themselves the occasional poser,

Like a couple of Oxbridge philosophy dons

Debating Spinoza.

 

This is hope: one recalling how things might have been,

And one seeing how they could be -

Both of them seeing what still might be sought

And neither seeing why not.

 

The above poem was written and submitted by 

Trevor Hewett