Sunday 28 July 2013

'PIED BEAUTY' --A POEM BY 'GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS' ON HIS BIRTHDAY !

''Pied Beauty''

G.M.HOPKINS
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GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;

And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:

Praise him.

By- GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS.
(28 JULY,1844 -- 10 JUNE, 1889).

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Friday 26 July 2013

TEN QUOTES ON THE 119th BIRTHDAY OF ALDOUS HUXLEY !

TEN ALDOUS HUXLEY QUOTES : -


(1.) ''Every man's memory is his private literature.''

(2.) ''Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities !''

(3.) ''Beauty is worse than wine,it intoxicates both the holder and beholder !''

(4.) ''Several excuses are always less convincing than one !''

(5.) ''Experience teaches only the teachable.''

(6.) ''Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead !''

(7.) ''Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too !''

(8.) ''An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex !''

(9.) ''There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception !''

(10.) ''Maybe this world is another planet's hell !''

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TEN GEORGE BERNARD SHAW QUOTES ON HIS BIRTHDAY !

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, One of the pre-eminent english authors of 20th-cent., Was born on July 26, 1856, in Dublin,Ireland.

Today GBShaw would have been 157 !

Here are ten quotes of G. B. SHAW :-

(1.) “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

(2.) “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

(3.) “Liberty means responsibility.That is why most men dread it.”

(4.) “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

(5.) “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”

(6.) ''Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.''

(7.) “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”

(8.) “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

(9.) “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

(10.) “Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

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Sunday 21 July 2013

A COMMONER'S DIARY: TEN QUOTES TO SAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY,ERNEST HEMINGWAY...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HEMINGWAY! A COMMONER'S DIARY: TEN QUOTES TO SAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY,ERNEST HEMINGWAY...: TEN QUOTES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON HIS BIRTHDAY : - (1.) ''But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defe...

TEN QUOTES TO SAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY,ERNEST HEMINGWAY !

TEN QUOTES OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON HIS BIRTHDAY : -


(1.) ''But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated !''

(2.) ''Never confuse movement with action.''

(3.) ''Wine is the most civilized thing in the world !''

(4.) ''Courage is grace under pressure !''

(5.) ''What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.''

(6.) ''As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.''

(7.) ''. . . .If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it !''

(8.) ''Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.''

(9.) ''There is nothing to writing.All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed !''

(10.) ''Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime !''

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Friday 19 July 2013

'ABSENCE' - A POEM BY ELIZABETH JENNINGS !

'ABSENCE'

by Elizabeth Jennings

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I visited the place where we last met.
Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended,
The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet;
There was no sign that anything had ended
And nothing to instruct me to forget.
The thoughtless birds that shook out of the trees,
Singing an ecstasy I could not share,
Played cunning in my thoughts. Surely in these
Pleasures there could not be a pain to bear
Or any discord shake the level breeze.
It was because the place was just the same
That made your absence seem a savage force,
For under all the gentleness there came
An earthquake tremor: Fountain, birds and grass
Were shaken by my thinking of your name.

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MY MUSINGS :-

'ABSENCE' IS A LOVELY POEM BY ELIZABETH JENNINGS AND IT IS A RECOLLECTION OF PAST TIME OR FOND-MEMORIES-GONE-BY !

The Poet Revisits The Garden Where She Had Met Her Lover The Last Time And Due To A Powerful Gusts of Flashbacks She Recreates The Scenes n Sights of The Last Meet And That Is So Overpowering That She Doesn't Find Any Difference In The Physical Ambience of The Place And Declares That As The Same That She Had Felt When They Met The Last !

But, The Stupor of Love , Breaks As We Proceed Through The Poem ! The Poet Takes A Leap of Sorts When She Concludes That Everything Has Changed In Its Essence, Howsoever A Physical Scrutiny of The Meeting Ground Gives Evidences To The Contrary !

It Is The All-Pervasive Absence of The Lover That Makes All The Difference When The Poet Smells A Biting Sense of Loss And Declares The Garden Now As Merely The Ruins of The Past !
The Overwhelming Sense of This Absence of The Lover Is Compared To An Earthquake Whose Tremors Have Shattered Every Possibility of Normalcy In Sight !
The Ruins Of Past Rupture The Re-union, If Any Could Even Be Fancied For The Time Being !

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Thursday 18 July 2013

TEN QUOTES ON THE OCCASION OF NELSON MANDELA'S 95th BIRTHDAY !

NELSON MANDELA, THE GREATEST LIVING MAN ON EARTH, TURNS 95 TODAY AND THIS, IN ITSELF, IS A GREAT OCCASION TO REJOICE PLUS RELISH THE LEGEND NAMED MANDELA OR MADIBA(as he is often addressed lovingly).

Since July 18, 1918, His Life On This Planet , Has Been A Great Boon !

The Anti-Apartheid Leader and Former President of South Africa and Peace Laureate, Mandela, Of Late, Has Been Struggling With His Life As He Has Recurring Severe Lung Infections That Required Of Him To Have Shut Out A Rather Phenomenal Plus Distinguished Public Life And Has More Often Forsed His Way To Hospitals !
Currently He Is Reportedly Reccuperating Fast In A Hospital And Expectedly Will Be Taken Home !

A QUICK RECOVERY PLUS JOYOUS 95'TH BIRTHDAY TO NELSON MANDELA !
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TEN NELSON MANDELA QUOTES :-

(1.) ''After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb !''

(2.) ''Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer.''

(3.) ''It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.''

(4.) “Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?”

(5.) ''Quitting is leading too !''

(6.) ''There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living !''

(7.) ''Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.''

(8.) ''A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination !''

(9.) ''....For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others !''

(10.) ''Nothing is black or white !''

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Friday 12 July 2013

THREE LOVE POEMS OF PABLO NERUDA ON HIS 109th BIRTHDAY !

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(1.) Sonnet XXV.
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Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among
Objects:
Nothing mattered or had a name:
The world was made of air, whichwaited.
I knew rooms full of ashes,
Tunnels where the moon lived,
Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost',
Questions that insisted in the sand.
Everything was empty, dead, mute,
Fallen abandoned, and decayed:
Inconceivably alien, it all
Belonged to someone else - to no one:
Till your beauty and your poverty
Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

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(2.) LOVE.
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Love.
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer
Remember your hands; how did your lips
Feel on mine?
Because of you, I love the white statues
Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that
Have neither voice nor sight.
I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;
I have forgotten your eyes.
Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to
My vague memory of you. I live with pain
That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
Make to me an irreperable harm.
Your caresses enfold me, like climbing
Vines on melancholy walls.
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to
Glimpse you in every window.
Because of you, the heady perfumes of
Summer pain me; because of you, I again
Seek out the signs that precipitate desires:
Shooting stars, falling objects.”

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(3.) I DO NOT LOVE YOU
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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how,or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

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Wednesday 10 July 2013

TEN QUOTES OF 'MARCEL PROUST' ON HIS 142nd BIRTHDAY !

TEN MARCEL PROUST QUOTES ON HIS 142nd BIRTHDAY,JULY 10,2013 : -

(1.) “Love..,ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.”

(2) “It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”

(3.) ''Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.''

(4.) ''The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes !''

(5.) ''The only paradise is paradise lost !''

(6.) ''Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.''

(7.) “Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”

(8.) “Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”

(9.) “Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”

(10.) “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”

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Saturday 6 July 2013

HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA TURNS 78 !

Today Marks The 78th Birthday of One of The Most Sought After Spiritual Guru Worldover, HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !
Today He Has Addressed A Gathering Of Some 40000 People Most of Them The Tibetans Living In Exile In India For Over Four Decades, And Other Spiritual Seekers And Fans of His Holiness, At A Place 150 miles south of BANGALORE!
The Buddhist Leader Has Laid Great Emphasis On The Importance Of The Young Generation As He Appealed To The Youths To Come Forward And Play A Constructive Role In Shaping This Century And He Also Sounded Optimistic Of The Immense Positive Potentials Lying Untapped, If Not Unrecognized, Of The Young People Of The World.He Asked Them To Bring A Lasting Change In The World And Make It A Better,More Peaceful And Harmonious Place !

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THUS SPAKE DALAI LAMA, A GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADER AND A FINE HUMAN BEING :-


(1.) “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”

(2.) “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

(3.) “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

(4.) “The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”

(5.) “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

(6.) “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

(7.) “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

(8.) “Love is the absence of judgment.”

(9.) “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

(10.) “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

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Friday 5 July 2013

TEN QUOTES ON THE BIRTHDAY OF HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

THUS SPAKE DALAI LAMA, A GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADER AND A FINE HUMAN BEING :-


(1.) “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”

(2.) “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

(3.) “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

(4.) “The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”

(5.) “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

(6.) “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

(7.) “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

(8.) “Love is the absence of judgment.”

(9.) “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

(10.) “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

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TEN QUOTES ON THE BIRTHDAY OF HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

THUS SPAKE DALAI LAMA, A GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADER AND A FINE HUMAN BEING :-


(1.) “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”

(2.) “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

(3.) “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

(4.) “The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”

(5.) “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

(6.) “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

(7.) “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

(8.) “Love is the absence of judgment.”

(9.) “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

(10.) “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HIS HOLINESS DALAI LAMA !

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Wednesday 3 July 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANZ KAFKA !

FRANZ KAFKA, The Great Czech Author Plus One of The Greatest Writers of The Modern World Literature, Was Born On This Day, July 03, 1883 In The Bohemia Region Of The Then Czechslovakia !

With A Good Deal Of Shortstories and A Couple Of Novels or Novellas(given the relative thickness of his works), Kafka Attained, Most Widely After His Death, A Rather Astounding Worldwide Renown As Being A Larger-Than-Life Kind of Writer In Modern Literary World !

'THE TRIAL' , 'METAMORPHOSIS' , 'THE CASTLE' are Kafka's Masterpieces Which Have Acquired The Status of World Classics !

Kafka Happens To Be One Of The Earliest Literary Stalwarts Who Had Ushered In The Modernist Tendencies as well as Sensibilities Into Literature !

The Theme of Alienation n Societal Plus Cultural Isolation , The Dilemma Of Human Life , The Shrinking of Choices or The Utter Lack of Meaningful Alternatives in Human Life or What We Call The Existential Angst And The Resultant Frustration Due To The Circumstantial Inability To Escape Out of The All Pervasive Claustrophobic Confines. . . . .et.al Are Kafka's Mainstay Of His Literary Output !

His Abiding Influence Could Still Be Felt As Largescale As In The Early Decades After His Death !

KAFKASQUE is here to stay for long n long time . . .!

Today Kafka Would Have Been 130. !

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15 FRANZ KAFKA QUOTES :-


(1.) ''In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.''

(2.) ''We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.''

(3.) ''Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.''

(4.) ''In the fight between you and the world, back the world !''

(5.) ''Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.''

(6.) ''How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?''

(7.) ''It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law !''

(8.) ''By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired !''

(9.) ''Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy !''

(10.) ''Evil is whatever distracts !''

(11.) ''A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us !''

(12.) ''So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being !''

(13.) ''God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them !''

(14.) ''It is often safer to be in chains than to be free !''

(15.) ''A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die !''

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,KAFKA !

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Tuesday 2 July 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,HERMANN HESSE !

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“One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”


Hermann Hesse.

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HERMANN HESSE, German Author & Nobel-Laureate, Was Born This Day, July 02, 1877.

His Most Famous Novel Is 'SIDDHARTHA' ,Modeled On The Life Of Young Lord Buddha or Siddhartha,as the lord was named initially.

'THE GOLDEN BEAD GLASS' and 'STEPPENWOLF' Are His Other Two Seminal Works.

His Novels Centre Around A Character Whose Life Becomes A Voyage Of Self-Searching And Such Explorations Ultimately Bring The Authenticity, Self-Discovery And Therefore The Ultimate Realization Of The True Purpose Plus The Real Meaning Of Human Life !

Hermann Hesse Got The Nobel Prize For Literature In 1946.

He Died In 1962 At The Age of 85.

His Works Are Often Viewed As A Lucid Illustration of Spiritualism.

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