Lothlorien Poetry Journal Volume 11 - Windmills of the Mind features outstanding contemporary poetry and fiction from 70 internationally renowned poets and fiction writers. Join them on this journey through the Windmills of the Mind. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand. Cervantes Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony. Little did they suspect that la mancha and montiel and the knight’s frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than sinbad’s haunts or ariosto’s vast geographies. For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. Jorge Luis Borges To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel Victor Hugo Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind. Michel Legrand