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«Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do.»
«Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch»
«Slowly, silently, now the moon / Walks the night in her silver shoon.»
«Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
angels, blossomed, blossoming, heaven, infinite, lovelier, lovely, meadows, one by one, silently, stars, The Angels, The Blossoms
«They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away»
«These days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.?»
«The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
act as, Arab, cheerfully, cheerfulness, folds, replace, silently, sit up, spontaneous, steals, steal away, tent, The Wee, voluntary, wee
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