Poetry Friday

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

~ Mary Oliver ~

Yoga

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

~ Sting ~

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Joy of Dancing

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

~ Ginger Rogers ~

And it's the rare one who can sing and dance and do both well. --KK

It's As Good a Reason As Any

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

~ Isak Dinesen ~

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

~ From Punky Dunk and the Gold Fish by Anonymous ~

Technology

Technology is a set of habits, and they can be good or bad for you.

~ Lauren Cerand ~



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Poetry Friday

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

The Only Real Reason to Write!

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

~ Jack Kerouac ~



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Absolutely!

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

~ Joseph Addison ~

Libraries

There are an estimated 122,101 libraries of all kinds in the United States today.

~ American Library Association Library Fact Sheet 1 ~

*Magic*

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

~ Rupert Grint ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Then Tabitha Twitchit came down the garden and found her kittens on the wall with no clothes on.

~ Beatrix Potter from The Tale of Tom Kitten ~

A Simple Truth

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

~ Satchel Paige ~

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Poetry Friday

Efficient use of language is one of the major hallmarks of poetry. For the poet, this means avoiding clumsy or pointless repetition by saying things forcefully and right the first time. It means avoiding abstractions and generalizations in favor of presenting the scene which generated the abstraction. It means that each gesture has its point and no moment of the poem is wasted.

~ Ed Ochester ~

A Friend

A friend--one soul, two bodies.

~ Chinese proverb ~

Land of Dreams

In almost all of our family trees we have someone who was brave enough--sometimes crazy enough--to leave his or her home country to come to this land of dreams.

~ Lisa See ~

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Ouch!

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

No!

Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

~ Jack Kroll ~





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Sunday's Kat Kwote

Rain

The rain is raining everywhere,
          Kittens to shelter fly—-
But Human Folk wear overshoes,
          To keep their hind paws dry.

Oliver Herford from The Kitten's Garden of Verses

As the 2012 Election Season Begins...

the bees got their
governmental system settled
millions of years ago
but the human race is still
groping

~ Don Marquis from archy and mehitabel ~

Poetry Friday

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

~ Marilyn Hacker ~

Risk

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

~ John Paul Jones ~

Happy Trails to You!

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

~ Edward Abbey ~

Reading

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

~ Charles Scribner, Jr. ~



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Independence Day

Have a safe and happy 4th!
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Sunday's Kat Kwote

the big cat sleeps
in the same seat...
with the doll

~ Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue ~

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Vision

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

~ Mark Twain ~

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Poetry Friday

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

~ Thomas Gray ~