Duvarlara Yazilmis Quotes & Sayings

Dead Butterfly
By Ellen Bass
For months my daughter carried
a dead monarch in a quart mason jar.
To and from school in her backpack,
to her only friend's house. At the dinner table
it sat like a guest alongside the pot roast.
She took it to bed, propped by her pillow.
Was it the year her brother was born?
Was this her own too-fragile baby
that had lived - so briefly - in its glassed world?
Or the year she refused to go to her father's house?
Was this the holding-her-breath girl she became there?
This plump child in her rolled-down socks
I sometimes wanted to haul back inside me
and carry safe again. What was her fierce
commitment? I never understood.
We just lived with the dead winged thing
as part of her, as part of us,
weightless in its heavy jar. — Ellen Bass

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. — Robert Schumann

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it! — Kelli O'Hara

The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly. — Andrew Cohen

When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed. — Frederick Lenz

If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you. — Jay Bee

The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you in effect, acknowledge that it is there ... in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God - an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate ... Appreciate. — Neale Donald Walsch

They tell us how much better off economically we all are in war than in peace. — Henry Hazlitt

Well. Who wouldn't break? I broke. You broke.'

'And we both emerged stronger.'

'We both emerged', I modified his words. — Robin Hobb

In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting. — Terry Pratchett