Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:   Whisper

‘If you love me as you say you do,’ she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.’

~Leo Tolstoy

 

We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

~Dorianne Laux

 

To every whisper if you listen carefully, you will hear or fail to hear something.

~Auliq Ice

 

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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

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Exercise Prompt for 04/11:   whiskey

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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

~Louise Nevelson

 

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

~Steven V Roberts

 

In every moment the Universe is whispering to you.

~Denise Linn

 

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Listen to the whispers you hear from within, give your soul the voice to be heard.

~Dee Waldeck

 

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Keep your ears open and listen to the whispers of the universe, because they will guide you for the best.

~Hina Hashmi

 

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

~C S Lewis

 

There’s a saying… ‘The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.’

~Sara Genn

 

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention… Failures can be God’s little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn’t listen to the whispers

~Oprah Winfrey

 

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Posted from the Grove

 

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

~Louise Nevelson

 

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

~Steven V Roberts

 

In every moment the Universe is whispering to you.

~Denise Linn

 

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Listen to the whispers you hear from within, give your soul the voice to be heard.

~Dee Waldeck

 

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Keep your ears open and listen to the whispers of the universe, because they will guide you for the best.

~Hina Hashmi

 

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

~C S Lewis

 

There’s a saying… ‘The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.’

~Sara Genn

 

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention… Failures can be God’s little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn’t listen to the whispers

~Oprah Winfrey

 

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~Yuya Mika:  Becoming Johnny Depp   (1:22)   Makeup artist becomes … anyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SxEy3XMUE&t=2s

 

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~Timelab.pro:  Istanbul. Love of the continents   (3:22)   magic carpet ride

https://vimeo.com/527877676

 

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Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

~Terry Tempest Williams

 

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. “… Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her.” “Who was it?” “His own wife.” “Oh, dear.”

~Lisa Kleypas

 

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

~Katherine Center

 

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I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

~Jeffrey McDaniel

 

A little still she strove, and much repented,

And whispering “I will ne’er consent” — consented.

~Lord Byron

 

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

~Judy Garland

 

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VIDEO:

 

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you.”

~Max Lucado

 

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

~Jean Paul

 

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God’s voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

~Dominic Riccitello

 

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.

~Charles de Lint

 

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The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don’t cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don’t turn up the TV and pretend they aren’t there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

~Max Lucado

 

Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.

~Yasmin Mogahed

 

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This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

~Rick Bragg

 

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~Dust:  The Lie Game   (12:55)   feeding the dream against odds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgilCOIBCXA

 

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~The New Yorker:  Yes-People   (8:35)   animated, Icelandic, Oscar-nominated, some expression-captures are spot-on priceless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaTkL825NQM

 

 

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The watch-dog’s voice that bay’d the whispering wind,

And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

~Oliver Goldsmith

 

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

~Francis Bacon

 

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn’t look to see who’s there.

~Vanna Bonta

 

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

~Richard Hofstadter

 

Soon, the whispers would solidify and their version of the truth would be the only one that mattered.

~Shaun David Hutchinson

 

One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity.

~Sun Tzu

 

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

~Lord John Russell

 

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

~Napoleon Bonaparte

 

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

~Mollie Marti

 

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In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain’t half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

~Will Rogers

 

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

~George Bernard Shaw

 

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If you listen to the beginning of the whispers you will not have to hear the shouts.

~Miranda J Barrett

 

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

 

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

~Martin Luther King Jr

 

One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent.

~Julie Garwood

 

We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.

~Veronica Roth

 

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

~Leonard Nimoy

 

If your shout is local, only your village will hear you; if your whisper is universal, the whole world will hear you!

~Mehmet Murat ildan

 

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MUSIC:

 

The red rose whispers of passion,

And the white rose breathes of love;

O, the red rose is a falcon,

And the white rose is a dove.

~John Boyle O’Reilly

 

I don’t think we get a choice in who we fall for, Ian whispers. I think we just do.

~Jodi Picoult

 

Love doesn’t think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.

~Celine Dion

 

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

~Maya Angelou

 

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My love for you won’t stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that’ll be me, thinking of you, whispering your name, and loving you.

~Penelope Williamson

 

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

~Simone Elkeles

 

Lie to me. she whispered. I love you. he said.

~Stephenie Meyer

 

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~Passenger:  Whispers   (4:00)   …in a world of noise and shouts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ZlADL1TqM

 

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~Neon Trees:  Everybody Talks   (3:54)   fun mix of zombies, drive-in movies, rock’n roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5G9tIe84lE

 

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~Chase Rice:  Whisper   (3:09)   skinboard lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH8R1Mt7IA8

 

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~Dark Whisper:  Song Of Songs   (7:46)  visually malleable, plastic, engaging; season with herb for highest ROI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZiPr79ghw

 

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~Post Modern Jukebox:  Careless Whisper, feat  Robyn Adele Anderson/Dave Koz  (4:46)   return engagement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVXziMFEqX0

 

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“You’re so very naked,” she whispered against his shoulder. He smiled into her hair. “So are you.”

~J R Ward

 

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

~George Steiner

 

There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.

~Markus Zusak

 

Lust shouts. Love whispers. Only the heart knows the difference.

~Jan Hurst-Nicholson

 

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

~Merle Shain

 

“There are greater things than want and lust, Nerissa,” he whispered. “I can’t afford those things.”

~Sarah Brocious

 

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No need to act, i let my fear show “He killed himself,” i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. “Fourteen times?” “He had bad aim.”

~Maria V Snyder

 

Aryal whispered, “If I start slapping people, I might not be able to stop.”

~Thea Harrison

 

When I hear Jazz, my first instinct is to lean over to the guy next to me and whisper, “Fourth floor, please.”

~Jarod Kintz

 

Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.

~Julian Tuwim

 

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

~Will Smith

 

Don’t you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me!

~Jim Carrey

 

Who discreetly whispers you forgot to zip up your pants? You babe, you’re my bestest friend.

~Mac Davis

 

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Sage and Time

a finger painting

 

© Iris Scott

 

Thx to:  Rusty’s Electric Dreams

 

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[Concerning the Water Ouzel (a bird), now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.

~John Muir

 

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

~Jack Gilbert

 

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

~Dean Koontz

 

At times on quiet waters one does not speak aloud but only in whispers, for then all noise is sacrilege.

~Sigurd F Olson

 

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Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her.

~Walter Russell

 

Faith requires following the power of a whisper.

~Shannon L Alder

 

The bigger the call, the smaller the voice. Therefore, we’d be wise to ignore anything that’s shouting.

~Craig D Lounsbrough

 

Let your heart guide you…it whispers so listen closely.

~Walt Disney

 

Opportunities don’t knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.

~Thomas Leonard

 

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@Writers Platform

 

To say, “Leave the room,” is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, “Do not speak.” A beck of the hand is better than, “Come here.” No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

~Herbert Spencer

 

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

~Duane Michals

 

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Please, she whispered as she opened the book, please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away.

~Cornelia Funke

 

We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.

~Francesca Lia Block

 

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Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies.

~Oscar Sparrow

 

A good book is never finished – it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

~Virginia Euwer Wolff

 

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

~Rita Dove

 

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

~William Saroyan

 

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Glass Table:

 

~Christone @Wordgrove Library: 

Dr Diana Houston

 

A Book: By Charles Kingsley

 

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book! – a message to us from the dead – from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away: and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, vivify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. . . . I say we ought to reverence books, to look at them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true; whether they are about religion or politics, farming, or trade, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things, the teacher of all truth, which He has put into the hearts of some man to speak, that he may tell us what is good for our spirits, for our bodies for our country. Would to God that all here would make the rule never to look into an evil book!

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 (copied from old newspaper – 10/18/20)

 

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Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

~Lauren DeStefano

 

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he’s gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

~Mark Doty

 

O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pitch me into the grave.

~Anne Sexton

 

Farewell, my friend,” Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

~R A Salvatore

 

Goodbye,” I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

~Libba Bray

 

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: “I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.”

~Rabindranath Tagore

 

If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

~Mother Teresa

 

 

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Exercise Prompt:   whisper

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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

~Janet Fitch

 

Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

~Ray Bradbury

 

Net results and rules have since changed the game

~the editor

 

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Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must – and this is absolutely essential – convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.

~Jean Guitton

 

You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person’s ear – and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.

~Julianna Baggott

 

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

~Jean Cocteau

 

Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.

~Scott Cunningham

 

The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.

~Robert Holman

 

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

 

Intercession

So round, so firm, so fully packed

Woman, Cigarette alluringly stacked

Smokin’ hot, both addictions

Neither healthy derelictions

 

He to conquer, she the prize

She the reason for him to rise

By his side, sheathe for his sword

If he be subject, she’s the verb

 

He, steeled to shield his chain-maled heart

She, his key to pick his interlocks apart

She dared believe love, dared begin

He went thru motions, merely maled his in

 

Memory’s faithless film of time

Rank vault of vapors, guilt left behind

First the urges then yearnings blindered

Temptations tease, fade, whisper reminders

 

Life beset with wrongs to pay-for learn-from

Sin’s Wisdom Tree we were set to eat from

Freed from need to follow cravings

Forgive our selves, our misbehavings

 

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A Different Us

They’ve eyes that whisper

tell their secrets

say too much if one interprets

are those who tend to listen closer

Those who bear us love us better

bring more to life than just enough

meant to be man’s better half

 

Hers to give life

hers to nurture

His to birth strife

his to butcher

Same DNA yet alien creatures

say the Misogyn, predators by nature

those with prominent dominant features

 

Do they war or complement

Use calumny or compliments

Brother weds another’s sister

The human race to seed a future

Mothers fathers creating lovers

Foreign sexes meant for each other

Readmit both … or should we bother

 

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vicissitudes

they both whisper and howl

the winds and voting public

both change their minds

their mood, direction

the wind’s deflection

the vote’s reflection

chaos theory or pre-selection

random flow or predilection

freed from walls, mute desperation

free wind, free will and free elections

 

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5s & 7s

the burning question

Cupid whispering, why not

lips and hips vibrate

writhe with anticipation

waiting permission to r*ck

 

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the past with secrets

leaves traces, indelible

history whispers

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some prophets do speak

change the end, bend it slightly

are time whisperers

 

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Watch the water heal itself of your presence — not to repair injury but to offer itself again…

~Paul Harding

 

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no‘s.

~Mary Anne Radmacher

 

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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

~John Eldredge

 

I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is. I think it is because my sizzle doesn’t match anyone else’s. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.

~Sarah Bird

 

Another reality is a whisper away.

~Judith Orloff

 

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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn’t cut it.

~James Earl Jones

 

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

~Elizabeth Taylor

 

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Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.

~Thomas Fuller

 

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

~Catherine the Great

 

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…dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

~Simon Raven

 

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

~Matthew Tobin Anderson

 

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Our murmuring is the devil’s music.

~Thomas Watson

 

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

~Marguerite Gardiner

 

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there’s no love lost between us.

~Oliver Goldsmith

 

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I like to feel the burn of the audience’s eyes when I’m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone

~Conor Oberst

 

The stars know everything,

So we try to read their minds.

As distant as they are,

We choose to whisper in their presence.

~Charles Simic

 

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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

~William Rounseville Alger

 

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

~Osip Mandelstam

 

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Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.

~Ashwin Sanghi

 

“Orthodoxy, my Lord,” said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, “orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man’s doxy.”

~Joseph Priestley

 

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The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

~Annie Dillard

 

I wondered if the Demon that whispered “Why not be free?” was Freedom itself.

~Inio Asano

 

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just – wanted.

~Maggie Stiefvater

 

 

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Quotes harvested from:  https://azquotes.com,  https://goodreads.com,

 https://wisesayings.com, https://quotemaster.com

 

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