Shadowy Embrace

I am Robert Cano.

"Fight with me, and I'll not lead you to death. Fight beside me, and none can stand against us. Watch my back, and I will die for you."
- me.

"School should never celebrate mediocrity, but those who are truly exceptional."
- me

"To know peace, one must first seek peace within themselves. Only then may peace be realized, and only then may peace begin to thrive in mankind. For those who refuse to seek the peace within themselves are those that will bring further destruction to their fellow man, and without remorse."
- me

"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."
- Albert Einstein

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

  - Leonardo da Vinci

"like the bird with broken wings,
it's not how high he flies, but the song he sings"
- From the song Courage - Orianthi feat. Lacey (of Flyleaf)

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
- John F. Kennedy

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
- Jim Rohn

"There is no such thing as a favourable wind for a man who has no idea where he is going."
- Seneca


"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
- Joseph Conrad

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
- Carl Sandburg

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams,
I've spread my dreams under your feet,
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."
- W.B. Yeats

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."
- Alec Bourne

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."
- Robert Orben

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
- Soren Kierkegaard

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"When you sqeeze the nobility, it's the peasants who feel the pinch."
- Draco (voiced by Sean Connery, Dragonheart)

"There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions."
- Azeem (Morgan Freeman, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)

"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
- Andre Maurois

And the quote of the week is:
"You know you're moving up in the world when they're calling you on your days off..."
- Melody Cano (my wife)

If you want to know, just ask. Or read my poetry, I assure you, most of it is in there...
 

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