Your favourite quote from someone you admire?
I love this one from Isadora Duncan (1877-1927); an innovator of free dance at a time classical ballerinas wore corsets, painful pointe shoes, and performed rigidly choreographed movements. She saw dancing (in bare feet and a skimpy Grecian tunic) as "the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body."
If I could tell you what it means, there would be no point dancing it.
Rooster I went to YouTube and watched a couple of his songs...he himself was amazing, thank you.
@Virginia : Yes he was.
Rooster, I was actually thinking that from you, there would certainly be some marvelous words from one of those magnificent "soldiers to the bone," but maybe next time, remembering Marley was a delight...he died only 36 y/o...
@ Virginia :
@Virginia: From "Chesty Puller, famous WW2 Marine.
Rooster, truly, only a bone-deep soldier could see it that way, Chesty Puller... It's marvelous!
And, I especially like this one with Halsey because...not even necessarily war, that's just life!
N I C E
I can't just say that it is nice,
one has to read and taste it twice;
you can't just play and cast the dice,
waiting to catch the biggest mice;
too rare are those, who win the price,
millions toil for a bowl of rice.
There are no words - just some pictures
or silly rhymes, caught in strictures;
it is raining on my lectures -
they forgot about the structures:
All this beauty in the movement,
does not need any improvement!
SO beautiful, Marianne, thank you!
You're very welcome, Virginia.
Marianne...I am truly impressed by your verses! English is NOT your first language, and yet you use it so easily, even the poems seem to just flow...very nice...
Lol - thank you, Virginia, I am doing my best.
Inspiration doesn't always flow so easily (there are times in which I can't find words, and there are words which should not be used); I have to take notes, check a lot, compare, make drafts, review, etc., look into "false friends", naughty meanings of innocent looking words, the differences between U.K. and US expressions, and for forgotten terms, etc., and I am also doing exercises.
Ha ha, Marianne, yes me too, I am just terrible at "naughty meanings of innocent looking words," even after 72 years of English, very often I use them innocently and everybody gets it but me!
I once heard the term "mistress of the single entendre," well I think that is me...
Lol - that reminds me of some awkward moments, pronunciation problems, giggles at the wrong moment and misunderstandings - or how one can be fooled. Well, I can say that I was often trapped by too common words (and even now, I am not so sure if my language is decent enough). I might need to review quite a few things, including acronyms, and not in English alone. Lol.
Oh those acronyms, Marianne! Well I am glad we learned that new one right here on Solved, from Rooster...FUBAR...
Lol - and the most "pessimistically" hilarious is "beyond all repair".
My current favorite is a quote attributed to Heisenberg:
"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you"
Which inspired this unrhymed sonnet on my part:
Afterlife?
O Lord, some say you don’t exist at all,
That all things visible, and more besides,
Once sprang from nothing, with no word from you.
I don’t believe that for a moment’s time,
Nor do I think that you created us
To live for just a fleeting span of years
To witness just the middle of a yet
Unfinished drama, with uncertain knowledge
Of the past, and less of what’s to come.
But no, this cannot be; you surely have
Much more in store for us than such a bleak
Existence, void of purpose, point or meaning.
And – down deep, I really must confess
I’m curious – what’s the sequel to this tale?
Bravo!
Thank you, Marianne.
Hi O'Tink, I love the Heisenberg quote...in truth, now with some leisure I am truly enjoying YouTube presentations on quantum field theory - of which the HUP is SO basic! Also I appreciate that you share your poetic philosophy...
* I have actually been thinking of posting a religious question, asking for those who wish, to share their philosophy of life...on most sites, that would be certain to bring a firestorm. But with so few of us, and accustomed to just appreciating each others' differences, it might work very well here on SOLVED...
Hi, Virginia,
Sure, no problem with firestorms here.
But even with firestorms, it was fun to deal with them on SodaHead
@T(h)ink
You're very welcome, sweet T(h)inkerbell.
What can I say...imma hopeless romantic!
Angela, Paulo Coelho...author of the alchemist! One of the lovers of our time, beautiful, thank you...
You're welcome!