Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
~Ovid

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
~Andrew Harvey

EndQuote:
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
~Antonio Porchia

 

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Exercise Prompt for 06/21:  island

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In love, somehow, a man’s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
~Helen Rowland

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
~Alfred Adler

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Posted from the Grove

Next week:  a special edition from Wordgrove, in There.com

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~fs.blog:  The Art of Being Alone
https://fs.blog/2020/06/being-alone/

 

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
~Henry Ward Beecher

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel,
I would look upon the world anew, and know what’s truly real.
~Van Morrison

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.
~Johnny Depp

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VIDEO:

~Erick Oh:  Heart   (8:35)   animated allegory
https://vimeo.com/52369262

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~Motel Pictures Inc:  We Forgot to Break Up   (15:22)   finding new ways to hurt
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/427480079

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~ADEM CREW:  Fantastic Dance   (6:16)   just enjoy it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfMoWcwm-bE

 

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Sometimes what gets to you most isn’t the large holes that get ripped from your heart but the fraying of all its edges — when the thing that held you together isn’t anymore.
~Terri Guillemets

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?
~Rosa Parks

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself putting it back together.
~Author Unknown

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MUSIC:

~Lucas Kruger:  Heart Upon My Sleeve   (4:15)   Avicii Tribute Concert

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~Blondie:  Heart Of Glass – PMJ, ft. Addie Hamilton   (3:57)   torched

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~Heart:  What About Love   (3:44)   good question, unanswered

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~Enrique Iglesias:  Heart Attack   (3:50)   terminal velocity

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~Kanye West:  Heartless   (3:40)   the beat of heartbreak, animated

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~Liberace:  I Left My Heart In San Francisco   (3:29)  just the ivories, tickled

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~Rainer Hersch:  Orchestral hijinks   (8:03)    sacrilege, a knife to the heart of classical music, fun

 

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Our heart is like an unfinished puzzle — that is why we search for the perfect one to complete it.
~Author unknown

Let the sun stop burning,
Let them tell me love’s not worth going through.
If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart,
The only dream that mattered had come true
In this life I was loved by you.
~Bette Midler

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau

 

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I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
~Charlotte Bronte

People who say “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” never felt a broken heart.
~LeBron James

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
~Donna Roberts

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Room in NY

Edward Hopper

 

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Every heart has its dark recesses, its cheerful sunny parlors, and its attic chambers.
~James Lendall Basford

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart’s curtain?
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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@Writers Platform

No one can really see what he loves. How many people worship God without ever getting a look at him? What can eyes see that the heart can’t see better?
~Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein, and André De Toth

God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within.
~Macrina Wieherkehr

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~John Bunyan

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Exercise Prompt:  heart

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When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don’t touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
~Tori Amos

What is uttered from the heart alone,
Will win the hearts of others to your own.
~Goethe

 

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~Greenie:

Does

Does a Comet ever burn as bright
if there’s no one to see it soar through the night

Does the sun lose its brilliant heat
like two hearts whose love they never meet

Do the stars fade away and dim
like the passing of a frivolous whim

Do dreams burn away and end
if there’s no hope to carry them like wind

Does a lonely heart forever yearn
like solar flares that ever burn…

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~BarTalk:

Seminar

The movie watched:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The book read:
The Heart of Darkness
The music listened to:
The Unfinished Symphony
The words I heard:
“Let it be, let it be”

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5-7 olio

bridge, flowered garden
heart parked by slowing water
next the wooded grove

a place set apart
chickens, a dog, cows nearby
heart full of gladness
cloudless sky, red letter day
made for dilettante poets

heart of the matter
edit thoughts for clarity
the reach for wisdom

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5-7-5-7-7 x 3

scouting for passion
the search for a comely miss
thrills, the tender kiss
this heart hunts with a mission
sets lures, the bait is kindness

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provocative lies
make a mockery of truth
put knife to the heart
undermine democracy
until the voters catch on

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heart like a river
lives coursing free and vital
streams of new vigor
dammed by anemic old men
damn a great nation to fall

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5-7-5 x 3

silent censored heart
blue-penciled body language
yet look to the eyes

love’s desire exposed
vulnerable with a hope
the heart on display

language barriers
yet no finer words for it
save, heart of my heart

 

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.
~Vincent Van Gogh

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.
~Littlefoot’s mother

When your heart speaks, take good notes.
~Judith Campbell

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.
~P D James

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Curated by: Wordgrove

 

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