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    Haven’t seen any new quotes in a while so I thought I’d add a few more πŸ™‚


    > Prayer is not an old woman’s idle
    > amusement. Properly understood and
    > applied, it is the most potent
    > instrument of action.
    >
    > – Mahatma Gandhi

    >
    > “Expecting the world to treat you fairly
    > because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you
    > are a vegetarian.” —
    >

    > If you can’ be a good example, then youl’ just
    > have to be a horrible warning.
    >

    And my favorite for this forum:

    > Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
    > which ones to keep.
    >

    #600749
    Purplecat
    Participant

      If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

      Hope is the thing with feathers
      that perches in the soul,
      And sings the tune without the words,
      And never stops at all.

      I shall tell you how the sun rose,-
      A ribbon at a time.

      Because I could not stop for Death,
      He kindly stopped for me;
      The carraige held but just ourselves
      And Immortality.

      I really love Emily Dickenson. πŸ™‚

      #600750

      purplecat wrote:

      If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

      Hope is the thing with feathers
      that perches in the soul,
      And sings the tune without the words,
      And never stops at all.

      I shall tell you how the sun rose,-
      A ribbon at a time.

      Because I could not stop for Death,
      He kindly stopped for me;
      The carraige held but just ourselves
      And Immortality.

      I really love Emily Dickenson. πŸ™‚

      That is really beautiful

      #600751
      Purplecat
      Participant

        they’re just a few tidbits from a book that I keep lying around of her collected works. She had an amazing mind, I would have loved to met her. She was very much a recluse in her time.

        #600752

        She probably would have made a great forum member as she preferred correspondence over actually greeting people πŸ˜†

        #600753
        Purplecat
        Participant

          True! RedWriter started this thread…I wonder where they went? I havent seen them post in quite a while….

          #600754

          Maybe they’ll show up now that the thread is going again?

          #600755
          Maria
          Participant

            Purplecat, I love that quote about Death and Immortality. I’m going to write that down.

            #600756
            Purplecat
            Participant

              πŸ™‚ I’ve always liked that one too. I may fish up a few of my other favorites by her and post them. πŸ™‚

              #600757
              Maria
              Participant

                Please do. πŸ˜‰

                #600758
                Purplecat
                Participant

                  It dropped so low in my regard
                  I heard it hit the ground,
                  And go to pieces on the stones
                  At the bottom of my mind

                  Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less
                  Than I reviled myself
                  For entertaining plated wares
                  Upon my silver shelf.

                  ———

                  Who has not found the heaven below
                  Will fail of it above.
                  God’s residence is next to mine,
                  His furniture is love.

                  ——-

                  This is my letter to the world,
                  That never wrote to me,–
                  The simple news that Nature told,
                  With tender majesty.

                  Her message is committed
                  To hands I cannot see;
                  For love of her, sweet countrymen,
                  Judge tenderly of me!

                  ———-

                  Success is counted sweetest
                  By those who ne’er succeed.
                  To comprehend a nectar
                  Requires the sorest need.

                  Not one of all the purple host
                  Who took the flag to-day
                  Can tell the definition,
                  So clear, of victory,

                  As he, defeated, dying,
                  On whose forbidden ear
                  The distant strains of triumph
                  Break, agonized and clear.

                  —–

                  I’m nobody! Who are you?
                  Are you a nobody, too?
                  Then there’s a pair of us-don’t tell!
                  They’d banish us, you know.

                  How dreary to be somebody!
                  How public, like a frog
                  To tell your name the livelong day
                  To an admiring bog!
                  —-

                  I looove her work, for as long as I can remember. πŸ™‚

                  #600759
                  Maria
                  Participant

                    I really need to look into her writings again. I did that in third grade, I think. πŸ˜›

                    #600760

                    I think we are going to review her works again for Home School. My daughter especially enjoys poetry and will love revisiting Em.
                    btw here’s a shameless plug on her behalf πŸ˜†
                    http://www.postpoems.com/members/princess_of_god

                    #600761

                    Klaus Schulze (the prolific German composer), in 1977, wrote:

                    The artist is anybody who has something creative to show, perfection is only a question of quantity not quality.

                    #600762
                    Maria
                    Participant

                      In a sense. I had to think about that before I could agree with it.

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