Fleur-de-Plea

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Einstein said: (picture Albert in his car)...
I think also: he did NOT know how to drive?

"Any man who can drive safely__

While kissing a pretty girl?

Is simply not giving the kiss__

The attention it deserves!"

Out.hOUSE flame

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" The happiness of your life depends:
Upon the quality of your thoughts!
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Take care that you entertain NO notions__
Unsuitable to virtue and reasonable in nature. "
~ Marcus Aurelius ~

cLOSE cRITICOS

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To criticize is: (according to Henry James)

to appreciate,

to appropriate,

to take intellectual possession,

to establish in fine_ a relation with the criticized thing,

to make it... one's own!

ill' helper

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Metaphoric Vision:
The primary substance of the poetic imagination.
A metaphor is not merely a clever embellishment of the poet's truth.
It is often the only precise embodiment of that vision!
Nor is it a riddle to be solved or a semantic obstacle to be leapt over;
before the poem's meaning can be discovered?
It is in itself: a solution, a leap, a meaning, and a discovery!
~M. Haley, The Semeiosis of Poetic Metaphor~

ol'Flop Rosie

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"You are always new!

The last of your kisses__

Was ever the sweetest."

~John Keats~

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"Individuality is founded in feeling;

& The recesses of feelings!

The darker... blinder strata of character:

Are the only places in the world__

In which we catch real fact in the making;

& Directly perceive how events happen;

& How work is actually done!"

so said Bill James ~ Henry's younger Brother.

Manikin Ringed:

Idiom

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" Each player must accept the cards life deals:
But once they are upon our hands__
We alone must decide... just how to play?
In order to WIN the game! "


'Voltaire'  ~  1694-1778
Francois Marie Arouet

Sofa.bone inDreams

~mmE~
"Dreams are true while they last__
And do we not live in dreams?"
~Tennyson~

Gracious Wind's Rider

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The grandest of operations (both in nature and in grace)
Are the most silent and imperceptible:
A shallow brook babbles in passage_ is heard by every one;
Yet the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen!
A storm may rage and alarm but its fury is soon exhausted;
And its effects are partial and soon remedied!
The dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity.
So for the very life of large portions_ here on earth!
These are pictures of the operations of grace,
In the church and in the SOUL.


 ~Richard Cecil~

Smokie Coal-Moon

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He ate and drank the precious Words,
His Spirit grew robust!
He knew no more that he was poor___,
Nor that his frame... was Dust.

#197 ~ / D O N E

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" All things appear and disappear because:
Of the concurrence... of causes and conditions!
Nothing ever exists entirely alone__
Everything is in relation to everything else! "