Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
~Jodi Picoult

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Sooner or later we realize that we will only be offered imperfect people to love.
~Dr. SunWol

EndQuote:
Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.
~Axel

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Harvested from: AZQuotes.com & QuoteGarden.com
Curated by: Wordgrove

 

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Prewritten Exercise Theme:  maze

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Posted from the Grove

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
~Vincent Van Gogh

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
~Vincent Van Gogh

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Animated:  The Gift   (6:00/7:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOFeSM1E2F0

 

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It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
~Marilyn Monroe

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.
~Marilyn Monroe

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Music to Love By:

PMJ: Ed Sheeran & Beyonce — Perfect  Duet  feat. Mario Jose, India Carney, Dave Koz (4:51)

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~Kina Grannis (Crazy Rich Asians):  Can’t Help Falling In Love   (3:09)

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~Leonard Cohen:  Dance Me Till the End of Love   (6:09)

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It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you’ve fallen in love with.
~Clark Gable

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I’m pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. The thing is, they’re both you.
~Jodi Picoult

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Images:
Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.
~Robert Breault

Vladamir Kush: Surrealist, metaphysical realism set to dream music   (9:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgLiwWebz8M

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
~Benjamin Disraeli

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
~Andre Maurois

 

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
~Iris Murdoch

 

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~Margaret Atwood

I think … if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
~Leo Tolstoy

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten Theme:   light

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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
~Zelda Fitzgerald

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~BarTalk:
Shadows

Stippled dappled crippled light
Freckled on the forest floor
Moves with the angled ample sun
Thru the silhouette sin of trees
Broken bright interrupted light
Unstained but incomplete
Reminds that complex mortals
Make life beauty-full to see

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Ordained

My dear my prize my cherished one
‘Twould break my heart in two
Should my love my light of life
Make light of love and prove to be untrue

Born of pleasure discovered treasure
No matter how the start
By death by chance one last breath
The hour comes when we must surely part

Soon or late one must leave
The subject always ends
Faithless love or feckless life
A solo heart rends without amend

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Physics Call

Indifference to love
The immovable object
Exuberant love
The irresistible force
Darkness and light
Incompatible states

One’s resistance stands innate
While the other prevails a source
Eldest is the ebon night
Tho firstborn black will outlast
The being of empowered light
Will chase the darkness all away

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Cowards of The Con-T

Hide behind bushes of convenience
Ignoring bushels of lies
Took lessons of courage from a bone spur
Then vote our sons off to war to die
Betrayed truth oath and country
Shrugged off warnings of a world at war
Middle fingered history
Closed their eyes and conspired
Smothered conscience
Before snuffing out the light

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5-7-5 x 2

craven in the light
who else but one vowed an oath
spineless in a word
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light love’s game of chance
flips a low card folds a hand
lose the bet, redeal

 

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Being trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
~George McDonald

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