Category: Cambridge

The road to a friend’s house is never long

Who Dares Wins

Sir David Stirling

Once a hay meadow is gone, it’s gone.

Professor John Rodwell

Green was the silence, wet was the light

Pablo Neruda

I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy!

Gerald Manley Hopkins, ‘The Windhover’

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It’s a new dawn,
It’s a new day,
It’s a new life for me,
And I’m feeling good…

Nina Simone, from I put a Spell on You

To gongoozle is to stand and watch narrowboats pass
And a canal is a lesson, a water-based school

Ian MacMillan

Side by side we lie, the river and I
[…]
Lying here is just a tired man, like you

‘A Tired Man’ Attila József

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I would not change it.”

As You Like It, William Shakespeare