Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~T S Eliot

People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don’t ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that is all.
~Ziauddin Yousafzai

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
~Ray Bradbury

EndQuote:
It takes courage to be the author of your life.
~Nicholas Lore

 

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Prewritten Exercise Prompt:  splinter

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Posted from the Grove

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To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
~Henri Matisse

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
~Aesop

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On Writing:

Tanka Poetry – A Brief Introduction
https://medium.com/house-of-haiku/tanka-poetry-a-brief-introduction-11f2aabef214

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Courage is saying maybe what I’m doing isn’t working, maybe I should try something else.
~Anna Lappe

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Vimeo Video:  The Foreigner   (17:04)   Intense
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/375358899

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Coward:  One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
~Ambrose Bierce

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
~Peter Ustinov

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
~Henry George Bohn

Don’t try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.
~Paulo Coelho

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Song For The Times: 

~Rio 2: I Will Survive (2:10)   Fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNc_AAyjFdk

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To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
~Janeane Garofalo

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzi

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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
~Coventry Patmore

 

 

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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
~Rosa Parks

Necessity does the work of courage.
~Nicholas Murray Butler

A brave arm makes a short sword long enough.
~French proverb

 

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@Writers Platform

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
~Mark Twain

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Prewritten Prompt:  courage

~BarTalk:
Fire Us the Virus

Mutant Porridge
Late touring band
Music gone viral
Best in the land
Grunge their style
Never washed their hands
Critic warned danger
Before he was canned

Dire Warning their rivals
Too cerebral and bland
Their lyrics and stylings
Universally panned
Their music and message
Law suited and banned
False Courage their song
Their beer and their brand

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Utah’t Me Love

College degree
PhD in biology
Acknowledged love
All its chemistry
Pledged to wed
Gave way to bigamy
Judge overruled
Jail and tragedy
Dodged that bullet
Avoided calamity
Bridged disaster
Courage from comedy
Salvaged the outcome
Comity from catastrophe
A privileged state
Heaven blest polygamy

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sequence

solo elemental atoms
single simple selves
classic basic building blocks
molecule membrane animal and life

cells of lonely selves
melt and merge and gel in love
coagulate into couples
conceive families for life

remote isolated artists
solitary outlying mavericks
given the courage say no to love
creative freaks quarantined for life

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Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.
~Lana Del Rey

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~Maya Angelou

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
~Nora Ephron

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Quotes harvested from:  AZQuotes.com,  Quote Garden.com

 

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