Saturday, January 11, 2025

Points And Poetry To Ponder

 “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

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“For he would be thinking of love

Till the stars had run away

And the shadows eaten the moon.”

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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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“Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”

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“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

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“What can be explained is not poetry.”

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“In dreams begin responsibilities.”

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“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

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“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield”

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“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”

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“Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.”

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“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”