Quoted in The Grove:
If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
~Harriet Tubman
The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit.
~Joseph Stowell
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
~Martin Luther King, Jr
EndQuote:
Inside my empty bottle
I was constructing a lighthouse
While all the others
Were making ships.
~Charles Simic
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Exercise Prompt for 06/14: heart
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God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle.
~Marian Wright Edelman
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
~Tilopa
You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.
~Arlo Guthrie
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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Posted from the Grove
There is in every village a torch – the teacher; and an extinguisher – the priest.
~Victor Hugo
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
~Blaise Pascal
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan
God presents Himself in the light; He also conceals Himself by the light — just as we present ourselves in our garments and conceal ourselves by our garments.
~John Pulsford
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~Andrew Hui: In praise of aphorisms*
https://aeon.co/essays/aphorisms-tell-philosophys-history-as-fragments-not-systems
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.
~Georg C Lichtenberg
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
~Goethe
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
~Samuel Johnson
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~Anne Applebaum: The Collaborators ̶ History Will Judge The Complicit*
https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/?ncid
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
~Adolf Hitler
Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
~Adolf Hitler
When men of infamy to grandeur soar,
They light a torch to show their shame the more.
~Edward Young
An age is called “dark,” not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.
~James Michener
It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
~George Sand
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VIDEO:
~Nkululeko Lebambo: The Olympian’s Torch (1:58)
https://vimeo.com/98282459
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
~Rabindranath Tagore
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
~Joseph Campbell
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
~H M Tomlinson
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~Harvey Fierstein: Torch Song Trilogy soliloquy (4:59)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMQwXAnQlko
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A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
~Plato
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
~James Thurber
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
~Claude Adrien Helvetius
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MUSIC: stories, tears, torch songs
~Franco Nero: If Ever I Would Leave You (2:38) the promise
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~Josh Ritter: Every Time We Say Goodbye (2:43) with conditions
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~Elvis Presley: Softly As I Leave You (2:42) and broken
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~Shiratori Emiko: I Will Wait For You (3:57) promise renewed
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~Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is (4:38) the question as answer
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You think I’m not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you’ll burn.
~Margaret Atwood
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch… and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order… by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
~Isak Dinesen
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No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
~Terry Pratchett
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.
~Howard Nemerov
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
~Douglas Adams
“Torches,” Porak ordered. “This is dumb,” Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. “Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we’re coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they’re blind.
~Jim C Hines
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Fallen Blossoms
© David Lorenz Winston
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This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows…
~James Michael Pratt
Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
~Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori Proverb
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby.
~Ruth E Renkel
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@Writers Platform
What is to give light must endure burning.
~Viktor Frankl
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
~Ray Bradbury
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
~Ellen Hopkins
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
~Maurice Freehill
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Exercise Prompt: torch
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Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it’s warm and you won’t see the dust on the floor.
~Irish Proverb
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
~Joseph Joubert
This evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness…
~Ted Kooser
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~BarTalk:
Torch, The Truth
We abducted, we brought them here
Ourselves, ruler and master of slaves
Made them concubines and footstools
Hung them on a nearby Oxbow cross
On some privileged white woman’s word
Ironic, in repayment they repaid us
Their onetime masters with a mastery
Of magic and sorcery, gave us music
Gave us sport heroes for our arenas
All out of proportion to population
Still, they die an unholy ratio
Do themselves easy with drugs
Suicide each other with guns
Hoods cruisin’, bruisin’ the hood
Bleeding out on Sacrifice Street
Destitute? then make hopelessness a crime
Deprived? then name and blame the victim
Makes no sense of course, but let’s ask
Why an advantaged young woman in anguish
Cuts herself for the bleeding’s fleeting relief
Yes, let’s arm against people by color
Pretend against remembered reality
Hide from the discoveries of history
Use time-worn lies to torch the truth, or
With its light, use that truth for a torch
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Hypothesis
Given…
that words are about enabling truth
that history is time’s testimony of it
that art is about expressing it
that philosophy is about mining for it
that religion is about living it
Supposing that…
charlatans are about preaching ‘truth’
lawyering is about shading it
commerce is about manufacturing it
politics is about manipulating it
governments about dictating it
Knowing that…
lying is about hiding truth
liars are about torching it
trust is about needing it
love is about breathing it
honor is about abiding by it
Believing…
that truth is alive and embraces life
that lies are loud and hard to hide
that truth, a language like any other
needs a man to speak the truth,
else how can the truth be told him
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foreign
english only
in the land of spanish
they utter
i mutter
lo siento
no comprendo
yo americano stupido
they nod
they agree
and walk away
the torch gutters out
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economics
who will man the farms and mills
children are hotly inconvenient
time consuming and expensive
who will work and pay the taxes
to fill the ditch the rich have dug
grow stale, spoiled and enfeebled
effete, barren and fruitless
exhausted, staid with sterile cliches
when the world is fertile with youth
a market eager to work and buy
douse the lighted torch
pretend and defend this truth
our newly improved American way
the higher the wall the better
Emma Lazarus would laugh
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5-7-5-7-7 x 4
blackness for background
pebble Earth hanging in space
fears of each other
a blink from oblivion
orbit our torch of the sun
lost without a map
a dim light in darkness
a torch to follow
dangers lurk in the shadows
yet yon light leads us forward
our hist’ry ’til now
road from the dark empty void
torch of our future
needs the light of each other
joined in the wisdom of One
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maples come autumn
birds of paradise in spring
orchard oranges
black eyed susans in flower
torch the green scene into flames
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5-7-5 x 3
new love like a torch
burns pitch hot for a moment
flames out at the end
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love’s long burning torch
warms as it cheers and lights up
cold dark roads of life
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upside down Bible
to match an upside down cross
False Torch religion
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.
~Author Unknown
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~Aaron Rose
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
~Chinese Proverb
I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
~Og Mandino
Your path is illuminated by the light
Yet darkness lets the stars shine bright.
~J L W Brooks
Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.
~Sarah Williams
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*Thx to: The Daily PNut
Harvested from: quotegarden.com, azquotes.comazquotes.com,
brainyquote.com
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