“Human life under any circumstances never ceases to have meaning.”

—Victor Frankl

The Journey

By Mary Oliver

The Song of Wandering Aengus

By W. B. Yeats

“Hope” is the thing with the feathers

By Emily Dickinson

Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes

By William Shakespeare

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters

By Portia Nelson

Still I Rise

By Maya Angelou

In Memory of My Mother

By Patrick Kavanagh

Prayer Before Birth

By Louis MacNeice