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Inspirational Flower Quotes "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." ―Iris Murdoch
11. “The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.” —George Thomas 12. “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against ...
She has published three volumes of poetry followed by a book of essays and inspirational advice, Keep Moving (2020) [7] and a memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful (2023). [6] You Could Make This Place Beautiful debuted at No. 3 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction List .
Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—
The poem is one of five surviving poems by Sappho which is about "the power of love". [8] It expresses the speaker's desire for the absent Anactoria, [ 9 ] praising her beauty. [ 4 ] This encomium follows the poet making the broader point that the most beautiful thing to any person is whatever they love the most; an argument that Sappho ...
[109] On "A slumber did my spirit seal", Wordsworth's friend Thomas Powell wrote that the poem "stands by itself, and is without title prefixed, yet we are to know, from the penetration of Mr. Wordsworth's admirers, that it is a sequel to the other deep poems that precede it, and is about one Lucy, who is dead. From the table of contents ...
[a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman. Fragment 31 has been the subject of numerous translations and adaptations from ancient times to the present day.
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...