Writing I Love: the longest writing. can be one line

At a sea swim in 2014, aged 16, my son Iain.. or, as I called him after this, “The Answer”..

“What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?” “42” ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

I often share on this site under the theme “Writing I Love”. Writing and language can have the power to transport us, as well as to connect us. Sometimes all it takes is one line.

I love the writing of @nayyirahwaheed on Twitter.

Somehow this particular tweet spoke to me, and has me ruminating on single lines that resonate.

On that theme: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

So, today a selection of single lines today, from thinkers, from movies, from favourite books :

“Me. We” ~ Mohammed Ali, composing the shortest poem in the world:

“This too, shall pass” ~ from the fable of King Solomon