Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:    heart

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
~Christopher Morley

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
~Charles Dickens

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

EndQuote:
I followed my heart without breaking any rules.
~Confucius

 

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Exercise Prompt for 02/21:   surprise

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There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.
~Author Unknown

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
~Antonio Porchia

I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It’s dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
~Rupert Brooke

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.
~Stephen King

It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
~Colette

Funny how a broken heart keeps right on beating, isn’t it?
~Cid Ricketts Sumner

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~Kenji Miyazawa

A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
~T E Kalem

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Posted from the Grove

The corporate world can be harsh and heartless and I’m trying to find my own soulful place within it. I’m learning a lot along the way.
~Connie Wallace, in an email

Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.
~Preity Zinta

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
~Mary Oliver

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
~Goethe

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Brains are like hearts – they go where they are appreciated.
~Robert McNamara

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~Martin Hogan:  A Heart to Heart With Kids   (5:16)   delightfully unscripted
https://vimeo.com/77462883

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Rom-Coms
The following list is ubiquitous and various, and is always available elsewhere. It is given here simply as a gift to those few who will see this just at the moment they are ready for a cozy movie moment. For you, then, please enjoy.

~MentalFloss.com:  Twenty Best Romantic Comedies – warm to zany and bittersweet; primo for watching alone
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642213/best-romantic-comedy-movies?utm_medium

 

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Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.
~Laura Kasischke

Nothing remains but the bare, gray ashes from the once bright fires of love.
~James Lendall Basford

The flame of love is now just a cold loneliness.
~Terri Guillemets

Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.
~Buddy Buie & J R Cobb

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
~Author Unknown

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
~Antoine Rivarol

When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
~Sufi Epigram

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Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don’t.
~Philip Reeve

My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
~Jessie B Rittenhouse

Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde

Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella.
~Japanese Proverb

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VIDEO:

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there.
~Henry Rollins

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You who have given me everything, you whose soul is so marvelously twin with mine…
~Octave Mirbeau

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
~Hermann Hesse

I do not know how to employ either my body or my soul, away from you. I only come to life again in your presence. I need your kisses upon my lips, your love in my soul.
~Juliette Drouet, letter to Victor Hugo, 1835

My soul is so knit to yours that it is but a divided life I live without you.
~George Eliot

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
~Leo Tolstoy

When I am with you, the only place I want to be is closer.
~Author Unknown

…Let the world know, if there was ever love:
Mine for you…
~Peter Winstanley

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Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~William Shakespeare

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~Omeleto:  One Day Home   (12:32)   almost too late
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BMUDAaxCrY

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~Omeleto:  Heart Issues   (8:32)   rascally rascals,  subtitled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk6dJi6IYdU

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~Omeleto:  Follow Your Heart   (7:20)   animated, cute dawg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU8H5T8zZZM

 

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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…. You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
~Neil Gaiman

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
~Carol A Dingle

I prithee send me back my heart,
Since I cannot have thine;
For if from yours you will not part,
Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
~John Suckling

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.
~from The Wonder Years

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MUSIC:

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
~Pablo Casals

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
~Pablo Casals

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

I’m so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can’t play great music unless your heart’s been broken.
~Benjamin Zander

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
~Johann von Goethe

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
~Martin Luther

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To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
~Theophile Gautier

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.
~Myles Munroe

A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
~Gloria Stuart

I have the one right every woman in the world possesses — to give herself, body and soul, to the man she loves!
~E Phillips Oppenheim,

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~Boethius

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~Bonnie Tyler:  It’s A Heartache, with Pishcoth   (3:17)  curious delivery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgiAc17CxRw

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~Jon Pardi:  Heartache on The Dance Floor   (3:54)   country passing thru town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg4Eui4sGlk

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~C C Catch:  Nothing But a Heartache   (2:56)   bubblegum heartache
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_lNkoZd6w

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~Engelbert Humperdinck & Janet Devlin:  Can’t Help Falling in Love   (3:06)   beauty and the beastly talented
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS1o5Kp6-IU

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~Heart:  Alone   (4:03)   song and stars beautifully seasoned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rO6n4fzF-U

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~Mynxii White:  Psycho Heart   (3:29)   overdressed soft core
https://vimeo.com/315992559

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~James Blunt:  Heart to Heart   (3:33)   lyrics in a leading role
https://vimeo.com/77462883

 

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When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.
~Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
~John Steinbeck

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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St Vincent Millay

Love lingers…
Sweet scent in an empty bottle.
~Barbara F Craigie

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~M Kathleen Casey

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
~Colette

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with Eternity.
~Paulo Coelho

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There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.
~Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
~Charles Dickens,

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
~Oprah Winfrey

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But, oh, how much a heart can hold.
~Coventry Patmore

Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.
~Zelda Fitzgerald

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I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
~Thomas Moore

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
~Samuel Lover

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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
~Jenny Downham

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
~Albert Camus

Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
~Kurt Vonnegut

He already ruined your mascara, don’t let him ruin your life.
~Author Unknown

If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it.
~Author Unknown

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The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
~Charles Henry Parkhurst

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things.
~Blaise Pascal

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
~Mark Twain

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

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

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The heart is forever making the head its fool.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My brain has no heart, and my heart has no brain. That’s why when I speak my mind I appear heartless, and when I do what’s in my heart I seem thoughtless.
~Anthony Bautista

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
~Jules Renard

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
~Al Pacino

Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.
~Mary Anne Radmacher

Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up.
~Chris Fedak & Allison Adler

Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
~Agatha Christie

More bad decisions are made from the heart because reasons need words, and words don’t factor in the heart.
~author unknown

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
~Marilyn vos Savant

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
~Henry Fielding

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@Writers Platform

Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough. A light, a beauty, a grace — how often I have used these words. Divine vision, if not divine to all men divine at least to me…
~George Moore

[Y]ou are my poem; you are all my poems, and far the most beautiful of all.
~Octave Mirbeau

Romance is the literature of hope.
~Damon Suede

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I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
~James Earl Jones

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
~Margaret Mitchell

Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover,
It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Storytelling is how we survive, when there’s no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can’t imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people’s parents, their culture. That’s how we learn from each other, it’s the best way. That’s why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.
~Alice Walker

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
~Gilbert Highet

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever that dream might be.
~Pearl S Buck

“The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget!” “You will, though,” the Queen said, “if you don’t make a memorandum of it.”
~Lewis Carroll

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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
~Louis Nizer

 

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Exercise Prompt:   heart

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Those who are heartless, once cared too much.
~Frank Ocean

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m not heartless. I’ve just learned how to use my heart less.
~Kanye West

Being cruel to be kind is just ordinary cruelty with an excuse made for it…And it is right that it should be more resented, as it is.
~Ivy-Compton Burnett

You think this cruel? take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
~Alexander Pope

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There’s been an accident,’ they said
‘Your servant’s cut in half; he’s dead.’
‘Indeed,’ said Mr. Jones, ‘And please,
Send me the half that’s got my keys.’
~Harry Graham

If you have given up your heart … you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.
~Stephen King

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.
~Helen McCloy

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
~Khaled Hosseini

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

assembled

words, pieces of poetry
shards of a broken mirror
parts of a broken heart
one choice between them

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changing horses midstream

in matters of the heart
what matters to the heart
battered and shattered
exploded world * in parts
sundered selves apart
(sound of a door slam)

the wonder of alone
but not lonely
to wander the world
bound to curiosity
only

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comfort worn

soft cotton texture
heart felt
not felt fibers
standard T-shirt, not
hair shirt survivors

love’s familiar companion
or self-ish
hypoallergenic
psuedo-champion
contest of wills

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a moment  #14

anonymous music
dogs in the distance
sound of women laughing
nearby

the sun
day’s work done
celebrates with a sunset
heart-stopping goodbye

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5-7-5-7-7

itinerant monk
hair shirt for a sinning heart
alms for words and songs
inhabit poet’s orbit
Solomon, Babel and Psalms

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5-7-5

transplant ill-advised
heart replant, last chance, first choice
please bring it with you

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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

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Laozi

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
~Golda Meir

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
~Charles Dickens

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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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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
~Andre Breton

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
~Carlos Castaneda

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
~Confucius

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Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.
~Jo Baker

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
~Dalai Lama

The windows of my soul
Always stare at you.
Knowing,
That you have the perfect heart,
To make a home.
~clairel estevez

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned…
~William Butler Yeats

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
~Ajahn Chah

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