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If These Would Be Silent: Quotes about Poetry

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Like so much of life, there is a giftedness to poetry. To be sure, there is toil involved—the testing of word and rhythm—but, in the final analysis, a poem is a gift. What is there, that we have not received.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). If These Would Be Silent. Writers and Poets I Read. Exulting Christian - my other blog. Poetry From a Treasured Wretch. 31 Days - Day 16 - Music. 31 Days - Day 15 - Moods (Pain and Sorrow). 31 Days - Day 14 - Wine.

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If These Would Be Silent: 31 Days - Day 16 - Music

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Thursday, October 16, 2014. 31 Days - Day 16 - Music. Silence is the speech of love,. The music of the spheres above. Richard Henry Stoddard, Speech of Love. There is something heavenly about music. God is a precise Being, and Musical notation is mathematically precise. To learn music theory, you must be something of a mathematician. Certainly you must have rhythm to understand the structure and beat of a song. To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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If These Would Be Silent: 31 Days - Day 14 - Wine

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. 31 Days - Day 14 - Wine. The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar. YOU must know that sometimes old women like a glass of wine. One of this sort once found a Wine-Jar lying in the road, and eagerly went up to it hoping to find it full. But when she took it up she found that all the wine had been drunk out of it. Still she took a long sniff at the mouth of the Jar. “Ah,” she cried,. The first one was a puzzle:. To make it welcome. Ancient ...

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If These Would Be Silent: Diplomacy

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Saturday, October 4, 2014. Diplomacy is to do and say. The nastiest thing in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg 1887- 1938. I'm not as diplomatic as I ought to be. I've noticed that my children have inherited this trait, and they say what they mean, and they mean what they say. Sometimes, the things they say are misconstrued by their hearers. It is a strange art, the art of diplomacy, and it is wise to learn how to balance truth with grace. VERNON K. MCLE...

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If These Would Be Silent: The Writer Within

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. I've always been a writer, a doodler, a note-taker. I cannot think without pen in hand, or a computer keyboard at my fingertips. I've written lists and newsletters and notes to loved ones. I've counselled and cajoled and exhorted and blasted others with the written word. I hope I am learning to let my words be seasoned with grace, so I can be a better reflection of the image of God. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days - Day 12 - ...

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If These Would Be Silent: 31 Days - Day 13 - Beauty

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Monday, October 13, 2014. 31 Days - Day 13 - Beauty. As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far;. But my face - I don't mind it. Because I'm behind it;. It's the folks out in front that I jar. This makes me laugh. Let each man think himself an act of God,. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God;. And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds,. To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. Philip James Bailey (1816 - 1902). Martin F...

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If These Would Be Silent: 31 Days - Day 9 - Poetry

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Thursday, October 9, 2014. 31 Days - Day 9 - Poetry. There are lots and lots of people who are always asking things,. Like dates, and pounds-and-ounces, and the names of funny kings.". I still hear my mom's voice reciting poems by A. A. Milne. I can see her tucking me into bed, singing Vespers in her soft, sweet way. My love of words was born from mom's vocabulary, which was ever-growing, ever changing, and ever challenging. I think that I shall never see.

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If These Would Be Silent: October 2014

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Thursday, October 16, 2014. 31 Days - Day 16 - Music. Silence is the speech of love,. The music of the spheres above. Richard Henry Stoddard, Speech of Love. There is something heavenly about music. God is a precise Being, and Musical notation is mathematically precise. To learn music theory, you must be something of a mathematician. Certainly you must have rhythm to understand the structure and beat of a song. To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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If These Would Be Silent: 31 Days - Day 10 - Dogs

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If These Would Be Silent. 31 Days of Ponderosity. Friday, October 10, 2014. 31 Days - Day 10 - Dogs. Ever since I can remember, I've had a dog. There was a Great Dane named Duke who towered over me and stole my mittens when I was three. There are times when only a dog will do. For a friend… when you're beaten sick and blue. And the world's all wrong, for he won't care. If you break and cry, or grouch and swear,. For he'll let you know as he licks your hands. Vagabond's House; Don Blanding. He was always ...