Neil Hester

"Curiouser and curiouser!" ~Alice, for what good is the mind without a sense of wonder and whim?

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The ever-illustrious Cheshire, proud Lyon of the Shameless Lions Writing Circle~ (Cheshire's post!)

"Curiouser and curiouser!"

~Alice

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"Do you know who lived in the house across the street? That's the best of all, it was Poetry! This I say, and what I say is true! I have seen all and I know all!"

~The Shadow (fairy tale "The Shadow")

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"I have nothing to say and I am saying it in poetry."

~John Cage

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"In short, art must at least attempt to engage the reader intellectually, sensually, or in just fun ways. If not the American imagination will continue to be just a shovel full of stars tossed randomly to the immortal blacks, where its children will no longer gaze."

~Dan Schneider

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"How can we lose when we're so sincere?"

~Charlie Brown

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"We do not remember days; we remember moments."

~Cesare Pavese

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"Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

~Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

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"Love is the only rational act."

~Stephen Levine

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"Enjoy life; there's plenty of time to be dead."

~Hans Christian Andersen

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"There are few things in the world as evanescent as a child's love."

~Lewis Carroll

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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

~Anton Chekhov

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"Far better to create one living line/Than learn a hundred sunk in fame's recline."

James Emanuel, "Sonnet For A Writer"

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"All poets are mad."

~Robert Burton

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"So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it."

~Willy Wonka

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"If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

~Samuel Goldwyn

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"I've always believed that a great children's tale is a great tale."

~Jessica Schneider

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"If we really do want more educated people, we have to do a much better job of educating the educators."

~Jack Horner

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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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"The child is the father of the man."

~William Wordsworth

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"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."

~Oscar Wilde

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"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."

~Louis Pasteur

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"If a caveman had read poetry like this, he'd have strangled himself to prevent the eventual development of language."

~Jason Sanford

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"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."

~Humpty Dumpty

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"Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break."

~Sara Teasdale

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"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."

~Chinese proverb

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"I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy."

~Bern Williams

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"Not all things in this cosmos have, nor require opposites. Love is 1 of those things that springs up without antecedent or opposite. This may seem facile, but it’s true. Love simply exists."

~Dan Schneider

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"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

~Georges Clemenceau

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"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."

~Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

~T.S. Eliot

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"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

~Epictetus

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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

~Charlie Brown

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"There are just too many people writing."

~Jason Sanford

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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

~van Gogh

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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."

~Willy Wonka

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"The impossible has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks."

~Douglas Noel Adams

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"If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them."

~Robert Graves

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"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day."

~Richard Price

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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

~Groucho Marx

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"Little things affect little minds."

~Benjamin Disraeli

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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."

~Gustave Flaubert

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"Knowledge is power. Don’t waist it."

~Anonymous

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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."

~Oscar Wilde

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"Longevity conquers scandal every time."

~Shelby Foote

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"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

~Michael Levine

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

~Dr. Seuss

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"If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

~Robert X. Cringley

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"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

~Bertrand Russell

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"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

~Eric Hoffer

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"Love's very pain is sweet."

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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"Children ask better questions than adults. ‘May I have a cookie?’ ‘Why is the sky blue?’ and ‘What does a cow say?’ are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than ‘Where's your manuscript?’ ‘Why haven't you called?’ and ‘Who's your lawyer?’"

~Fran Lebowitz

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"It's not bragging if you can back it up."

~Muhammad Ali

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"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"PJZNT isn`t a word? SINCE WHEN?"

~Merlin the Tuna

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"Stay a child while you can be a child."

~Stephen Sondheim, Into The Woods

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"What we need now is some new, fresh clichés."

~Samuel Goldwyn

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"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty."

~Lao Tzu

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"You don't get to choose. You just fall."

~Anonymous

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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

~Picasso

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"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!"

~John Keats

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"Can't repeat the past? ...Why of course you can!"

~Jay Gatsby

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"Dare to be naive."

~R. Buckminster Fuller

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"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

~Carl Sagan

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"Who cares about money?! This is ART, you blockhead! This is great music I'm playing, and playing great music is an art! Do you hear me? An art! Art! Art! Art! Art! Art!

~Schroeder

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"This is art, after all- & a good lie is far better than a dull truth."

~Dan Schneider

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"We're not laughing at you; we're laughing near you."

~John Keating (Dead Poet Society)

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"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."

~Colette

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"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"

~Benjamin Franklin

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"You're not short- you're fun-sized!"

~Christine Kobza (speaking to me)

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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance- it is the illusion of knowledge."

~Daniel J. Boorstin

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"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know."

~Mistinguett

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"Nothing you can't spell will ever work."

~Will Rogers

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"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

~Steven Wright

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"Spend everyday casual, but industrious; Every moment alert, but relaxed."

~Guy Finley

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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

~Mohandas Ghandi

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"Whether or not criticism is objective or subjective is not subjective; it's objective, and you're making it subjective. Jective."

~Neil Hester

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"The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."

~Sun Tzu

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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they'€™re still alive."

~Orlando A. Battista

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Monday, August 06, 2007

August~

Ah, the final entry in the Month series, August! I am a bit tired of doing these, but this is the last one, as the series began with September. And now, some trivia:

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August begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Leo and ends in the sign of Virgo.
August was originally named Sextilis in Latin, but was renamed in honor of Augustus in 8 BC because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, including the fall of Alexandria, land on this month.
August is Women's Small Business Month.
The Philippines celebrates National Heroes Day on the last Sunday in August in commemoration of the First Cry of the Philippine Revolution on August 23, 1896.
August's birthstone is the peridot, sardonyx, or sapphire.
In Irish, August is known as Lúnasa, a modern rendition of Lughnasadh, from the god Lugh.
My birthday is August the 16th, a date I share with an important person.

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And now, the final couplet:

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A Gusto

August breezes in soft from July
With gusto to match a lullaby.

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Mm, not too good, but hey, writing these couplets isn't exactly a momumental poetic endeavor. This concludes the Month series; take care 'til next, folks~

~LAEvanesce

6 Comments:

Jessica Schneider said...: I think the month series is a rather clever thought. Now it's complete. You could gather all the couplets and put them into a 12 part poem, and give the series its own name. Just a thought.; 5:15 PM
LAEvanesce said...: Yeah, I was actually planning on doing that (and maybe redoing a few of the less clever ones). I'm happy I did the series; I suppose the routine became tiresome after awhile, though.; 12:23 AM
Wanderlust Scarlett said...: Hope you have a wonderful birthday!!

Scarlett & Viaggiatore; 4:33 PM
Jessica Schneider said...: I was wondering when you'd hit 17. Mine's the 21st. Important person- Madonna?; 6:23 PM
LAEvanesce said...: Thanks, Wanderlust ^^

Looks like we're only 5 days apart, Jess (give or take, oh, a few years~). And Madonna wasn't who I had in mind, but that's a good guess. Y'know, Bukowski was born on August 16th, 1920 (definitely not whom I was referring to, though).; 10:23 PM
Jessica Schneider said...: I've met many people over the years who have the birthday Aug 16 & 17. For some reason those days seem to be popular. The 17th more so.

"(give or take, oh, a few years~)"

Yeah, yeah, yeah...; 6:38 AM

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