Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong,
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley Julian and Maddalo
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Saturday Sayings – Wrong
Tag: Sayings
Saturday Sayings – Purple
Oh, beautiful,
for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain,
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good
With brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
— Katharine Lee Bates
Saturday Sayings – Dreaming
And the thought will strike with a swift sharp pain
That I probably never will build again
This house that I’ll have in some far day.
Well . . . it’s just a dream-house anyway.
–Don Blanding, Vagabond’s House.
How true, how true! Do we not all do this!
The diet, the savings, the house cleaning, the time with children, the smile we’ve purposed to give the husband — SISTERS! Let’s do more than plan for someday!
Let’s just do it!
Someday never comes.
Saturday Sayings – Fleeting Moments
Thus heavenly hope is all serene,
But earthly hope, how bright soe’er,
Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene,
As false and fleeting as ‘tis fair.
–Reginald Heber
On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope
Saturday Sayings – Create
As a writer watching my son survive college writing classes,
knowing his personality and his wrong language tendencies,
I’ve concluded that, at least sometimes,
we cushion our message in “thesaurus words” because we fear a harsh reaction.
Only a long time writer knows:
no matter how you cushion it,
harsh reactions will spring up.
When creating matters more to me than my ego,
then it improves.
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Saturday Sayings – Today
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorrow.
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saturday Sayings: Summer!
The year is 1250 and nothing much is different, it seems!
This ancient English song, the earliest known with words and musical notation printed together, is recorded in Thomas Warton‘s History of English Poetry, itself an ancient book from the 1700’s. Try to figure out the meaning of this older version of our language and enjoy!
Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu.
Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu.
Sumer is i-cumin in—
Lhude sing, cuccu!
Groweth sed and bloweth med
And springth the wude nu.
Sing, cuccu!
Awe bleteth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu,
Bulluc sterteth, bucke verteth—
Murie sing, cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu,
Wel singes thu, cuccu.
Ne swik thu naver nu!
To hear a sung rendition of it in a sweetly natural setting, consider viewing the movie, “Sarah, Plain and Tall“. This delightful version of the popular book of the same title speaks volumes to those of us who hunger for a lost childhood.
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