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Letter "R" » ripples
«When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?»
«We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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anesthetized, chronological, chronological sequence, convenient, dates, here and there, paste, pasted, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, sequence, spiral, spiraling, spirals, table, The Sequence
«Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly, / Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.»
Author: George Meredith
(Novelist, Poet)
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beech, beech tree, Couched, folded, greensward, idly, ripple, ripples
«The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.»
«There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.»
«There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief /a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.»
«These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
boats, destination, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling
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