Monthly Archives: May 2023

TCS: I Have Seen Flowers Come in Stony Places

Posted on May 29, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ He loves his country best who strives to make it best. – Robert Ingersoll, humanist _______________________ The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.– Thucydides

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TCS: A Garden of Inexhaustible Language

Posted on May 22, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposedeither to be or to do. Especially in this country, onetakes on the job—because all that one does in Americais considered a “job”— with no clear sense as to … Continue reading →

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TCS: “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone”

Posted on May 15, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. – Thomas Gray Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.– Aristotle

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TCS: Spring’s Perfect Imminent Hour

Posted on May 8, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! __________________________________________ “What potent blood hath modest May.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “… honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents …” – Samuel Scoville Jr., … Continue reading →

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A Poem by Robert Browning on His Birthday

Posted on May 7, 2023 by wordcloud9

Robert Browning born on May 7, 1812 in Camberwell, a middle-class suburb of London. He was the only son of Robert Browning, a clerk in the Bank of England, and a devoutly religious German-Scotch mother, Sarah Anna Wiedemann Browning, who … Continue reading →

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TCS: Ada Limón’s Instructions on Not Giving Up

Posted on May 1, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________ ‘Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?’ – Ada Limón, from “The Hurting Kind” ‘I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm … Continue reading →

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