My fellow errorists

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
~John Dryden

Finishing off National Poetry Month with a little more about mistakes, in honor of IMPERFECT.

Did you know that there are museums and libraries dedicated to mistakes? There's the Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh, which is a "comprehensive collection of books and other materials related to business and finance and our failure to learn the lessons of the past." Their motto is "Changing the world one mistake at a time." On the Library of Mistakes blog, posts are charmingly addressed to "my fellow errorists."

And now for The Museum of Failure:

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Edgar Guest was a big believer in the sentiment behind the Japanese expression "Fall down seven times, stand up eight." An excerpt from Defeat by Edgar Guest:

No one is beat till he quits,
No one is through till he stops,
No matter how hard Failure hits,
No matter how often he drops,
A fellow's not down till he lies
In the dust and refuses to rise.

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Here's a poem by Emily Dickinson about a situation where you really don't want to be making mistakes:

Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit—Life!

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Live Your Poem has the Poetry Friday round-up. Thanks, Irene!

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