Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:   shadow

The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.
~Junichiro Tanizaki

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
~Leo Tolstoy

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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
~Gregory Maguire

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Prewritten Prompt circa 08/15:   insult

A belief: kindness is to be valued more than love, always. The effects of it are more evident and immediate, less ambiguous. Despite its sometimes pitiless humor, a razor-sharp wit is also perched near the top, a quality to be admired. The blade of truth is what redeems it. Next issue: with the hoot and ruthless glee of insults sharpened on the whetstone of wit, the goddess bitch of truth.

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Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
~Owen Meredith

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~Maori proverb

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~Samuel Smiles

This worldly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.
~Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
~Mary Stewart

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He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.
~Spanish proverb

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
~Swedish proverb

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.
~J Ruth Gendler

A good horse runs with seeing just the shadow of the whip.
~Gautama Buddha

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Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the past, my fears and hopes of the future are all shadows. Today is my reality, and I’ll use it to create my world.
~Taylor Stevens

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.
~Joan Bennett Kennedy

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
~Diane Setterfield

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Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things, but there are evil things, too, and you are not doing the child a favor by trying to shield him from reality.
~Walt Disney

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers, and scientists are keeping society together.
~Rita Dove

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
~Rudyard Kipling

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How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
~Thomas Merton

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
~Khalil Gibran

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.
~Snoop Dogg

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
~Whitney Houston

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Posted From The Grove

Everything that is, casts a shadow
~Neil Gaiman

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
~Meher Baba

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The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
~Antonio Porchia

Somethings can only be seen in the shadows.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.
~T S Eliot

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
~Elizabeth Bowen

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The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.
~Herman Melville

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
~John Lyly

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
~Aesop

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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
~Samuel Beckett

If it were not for fighting shadows we should be strong enough for realities
~William Shakespeare

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The world is in balance. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
~Ursula K Le Guin

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
~John Gay

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~WIRED Masterminds:  Amazing Illusions: Using Human Bodies to Create Shadow Dances   (11:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WqU2tcfwIY

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~Tony Bennet:  The Making of: The Shadow of Your Smile   (4:33)   from Duets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb9X7gVN6cA

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~Ivan Maria Friedman:  Guardians of Paradise   (11:48)   the serene beauty of Burma, before the shadows
https://vimeo.com/577974858

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
~Oscar Wilde

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
~Dale E Turner

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
~Pythagoras

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Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.
~Gautama Buddha

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.
~Steven Furtick

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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
~Adam Johnson

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
~Lucan

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.
~Alan Moore

If a man’s shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
~William Butler Yeats

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
~Sydney Smith

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
~Laozi

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
~African Spirit

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.
~Fausto Cercignani

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~Abraham Lincoln

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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
~Publilius Syrus

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
~Ibn Taymiyyah

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow
~Genghis Khan

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
~Plutarch

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Befriend your shadow and life will be easier.
~Robert Jabert

I like my shadow; it reminds me that I exist.
~Mehmet Murat ildan

My shadow serves as the friend I crave
~Anna Akhmatova

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.
~Jandy Nelson

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
~Jean de La Fontaine

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
~Ray Bradbury

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
~Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
~Helen Keller

ah, the paradox, what irony
~the editor

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Foolish Ever, don’t you realize there’s no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It’s your dark side, your shadow self, and you’ve now joined as one.
~Alyson Noel

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror — we all have it — that shadow self — that dark heart.
~John J Geddes

Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you.
~Carl Jung

We are linked by our shadows, not by our light.
~Jun Mochizuki

You mustn’t be afraid of the dark.’ ‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.’
~Neil Gaiman

To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.
~Carl Jung

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
~Richard Rohr

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~Omeleto:  Feeling Through   (18:25)   lives in shadow, redemptive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1CqzntEZZ8

~Omeleto:  The Shadow of Cairo   (15:06)   another culture, young superhero, mismanaged grief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggg1rDeo8E0

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~David Wayne Smith:  Oasis   (8:05)   the shadows of survival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSSXdetXyEE

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Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift.
~Ebenezer Elliott

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
~Crowfoot

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
~Robert Brault

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~William Shakespeare

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows.
~Ted Kooser

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When the shadow of death blots out my joy
And erases the face of the sun
Give me strength to endure, hope to believe
That living and dying are one.
~William Wallace

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.
~Swami Vivekananda

Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you’re dealing with at the time.
~Tiffany Baker

We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It’s hard to argue with death as a game-changer.
~Bryan Fuller

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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
~W H Auden

What happened to that man I was seven autumns ago? What happened to that country? Time heals, yes – and thank God the pain and terror of that time has abated, at least for most of us. In that sense time is a mercy. But time also obscures the life-giving truths we perceive in the light of the shadow of death. In that way, time is a curse.
~Rod Dreher

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
~Joseph Addison

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
~Moliere

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
~Leo Tolstoy

…ignorance is like a shadow — it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
~Shakti Gawain

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
~William S Burroughs

That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything’s dark and you can’t see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
~Haruki Murakami

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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.
~Maurice Maeterlinck

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.
~Juliet Marillier

The evening of the year has come; and as the shadows draw closer with each successive month, the poetry of the season passes by slow degrees from the major key of early September to the sad minor of late November.
~Oscar Fay Adams

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
~Edward Young

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MUSIC:
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.
~Claude Debussy

Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.
~Vladimir Nabokov

Some illusions…are the shadows of great truths.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
~Socrates

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~Michelangelo

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The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased.
~Leonardo da Vinci

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
~August Sander

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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
~Paul Cezanne

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow — no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real.
~Amy Grant

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~Junichiro Tanizaki

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors… it’s an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
~Conrad Hall

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people’s dreams — their visions, really — we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.
~Julia Cameron

Shadow conceals — light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
~Josef von Sternberg

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
~Diane Ackerman

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
~Henry James

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Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist — hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.
~Julia Cameron

I’ve been sleeping through my life
Now I’m waking up
And I want to stand in the sunshine
I have never been ecstatic
Had a flower but it never bloomed
In the darkness of my wasted youth
It was hiding in the shadows
Learning to become invisible
Uncover me
~Juliana Hatfield

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~Cat Stevens:  Moonshadow, w/ Mandy Moore   (2:55)   a classic, different take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk6agQYcxyw

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~Mike Oldfield:  Moonlight Shadow, ft. Maggie Reilly   (3:42)   Scottish ballad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80qhyovOnA

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~Andy Gibb:  Shadow Dancing   (5:00)   Live in Chile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw1Kt693pMs

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~Lindsey Stirling:  Shadows   (3:54)   violin and dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGCsyshUU-A

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~Pat Benetar:  Shadows of the Night, w/ Helen Schneider   (3:17)   a classic reinterpreted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A87dd7Rtt4

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~Mike Oldfield:  Shadow On The Wall   (3:11)   intense shadow, and the blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_euDhMDDRq4

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~Linkin Park:  Shadow Of The Day   (4:17)   apocalyptic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1PCW0C1aiM

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~The Rumjacks:  Light in My Shadow   (3:16)   Aussie lads in a drinking song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzLEphuP9YI

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~The Rasmus:  In The Shadows   (3:39)   ghostly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ao2u7F_Qzg

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~Vic Damone:  The Shadow of Your Smile   (4:07)   from The Sandpiper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W20hPoo658

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~Dean Martin, Zero Mostel & Tommy Tune:  Me & My Shadow   (3:50)   in honor of the Olympics, comedy gold  (OK, maybe bronze)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4HoqYlx5m8

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jealousy is indeed the shadow of love
~Ayala Malakh-Pines

Shame is the shadow of love.
~P J Harvey

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.
~Paulo Coelho

The cemetery has … an inscription: ‘Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.’ Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I’ve known has had a way of going missing.
~Margaret Atwood

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.
~Dante Alighieri

Shadow turned. Her eyes were wet; she smiled at him wanly. “I’ll be she loved you.”
~Catherine Fisher

My soul’s the present shadow of a presence gone.
~Fernando Pessoa

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.
~Charles Bukowski

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.
~Helen Hollick

Love is a naked shadow,
On a gnarled and naked tree.
~Langston Hughes

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shadows of love, inebriations of love,
foretastes of love, trickles of love,
but never yet the one true love.
~Edna O’Brien

Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow’s bliss.
~William Shakespeare

“There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven’t you heard? Sometimes it’s hard to decipher exactly which emotion is strongest.” I raised my chin. “I don’t love you either.” He lowered his head and watched me from underneath his dark lashes. “Are you certain? Because the emotion pouring out of you every time I’m near you is certainly not disinterest.” “That doesn’t mean it’s love.” “It could be, I promise you. Take off that sweater and give me ten minutes, and you’ll believe beyond a shadow of a doubt you’re in love.”
~Darynda Jones

What is the body?
That shadow of a shadow of your love,
that somehow contains the entire universe.
~Rumi

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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
~Roland Barthes

You’re my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.
~Richelle Mead

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
~Carl Jung

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.
~Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.
~Howard Nemerov

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

I spend so much time alone that whenever I see my shadow I feel crowded.
~Dov Davidoff

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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
~Bill Nye

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.
~Terry Pratchett

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.
~Nicolaus Copernicus

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I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
~Tim Burton

My dreams have a dragon-shaped shadow and breathe fire into the dawn.
~Terri Guillemets

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Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch
~J R R Tolkien

Moon’s paintbrush has only a palette of shadows: creamy gray, inky black, illusive indigo.
~Dr SunWolf

Night speaks a language of shadows and of the soul. 3 AM is poetry translatable only by the moon and stars.
~Terri Guillemets

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
~Og Mandino

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Eugene Golovesov @Pexels

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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
~C Wright Mills

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
~John Dewey

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
~William Shakespeare

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.
~Dan B Allender

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What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
~Melissa Marr

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
~Lin Yutang

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable yet not hostile, only opposed.
~Thomas Carlyle

Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
~Hubert H Humphrey

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you’re gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
~Charles de Lint

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
~Carl Jung

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Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
~John Bradshaw

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.
~Carl Jung

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
~Djuna Barnes

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow?
I must have a dark side also
If I am to be whole
~Carl Jung

Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.
~Rumi

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The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.
~Deepak Chopra

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
~Jennifer Beals, actor

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt – even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquized combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.
~C S Lewis

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it.
~Carl Jung

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
~Lorraine Toussaint

Even the purest cast a black shadow.
~Kaitlyn Jones

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
~Anthony Hopkins

If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.
~Lady Gaga

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids’ parties.
~Gary Busey

The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.
~Jim Dodge

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@Writers Platform

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
~Neil Gaiman

Word is a shadow of a deed.
~Democritus

We think not in words but in shadows of words.
~Vladimir Nabokov

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving.
~O Henry

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There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only thing that I say to myself is, in the spirit of that quote from the Gnostic Gospels: Writing is a way to let all that stuff out into the sun.
~George Saunders

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
~Ralph Ellison

If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos — and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.
~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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There is strong shadow where there is much light.
~Goethe

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.
~George R R Martin

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
~Charles Dickens

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It is only the quietest one who can hear all the voices of the world; only the shadows can see all the lights!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.
~Sherrilyn Kenyon

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
~Madeleine L’Engle

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

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Prewritten Prompt:   shadow

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We are but dust and shadows.
~Cassandra Clare

A human being is only breath and shadow.
~Sophocles

More than a shadow and less than a soul.
~Anne Bishop

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Doubt is faith’s shadow.
~Jo Nesbo

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
~Blaise Pascal

You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your mind. You must choose where to live — in the light or the shadows. The most powerful tool you have is your power of choice.
~Nirmalananda

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
~Haruki Murakami

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The EXERCISE:

Some People

Some people can’t be trusted
with others’ love, or lusted
after, who defile with touch
who love too much or not enough

Some who cling and link with chains
clutch with claws or grasp at straws
tempt with mastery of kitchen flavors
or bribe withholding bedroom favors
who threaten harm as jealous ragers
tame with whips as wild-heart cagers
demand preeminence as vain upstagers

And some who stand just out of reach
slanted shadows with flowered speech
who look-alike but sham imposters
skin-akin to scamming fraudsters
two dimensioned pseudo-lovers
sharing shapes much like twins
similar, yet inauthentic things

And some there are who music solo
only fit to play and sing alone
who pray to share and try to preach
worthy lessons only they can teach
accepting praise and coins unearned
yearning hopes soon turned to scorn
leave believers duped and shorn

Or flayed alive and blister burned
shorting love ere its being born
donning full asbestos vest
to shield protecting target’s chest
arresting Eros’ pointed interest
deflecting Cupid’s arrow best
aimed at a torn and bleeding breast

Shielding self
protecting others
proffers distance
but no one bothers
lovers hover
quickly thwarted
preemptive strike
and love’s aborted

So spare me love
its rigor mortis
whose fortified
internal heart is
tucked safe inside
a walled-up fortress
secured away from
where the sport is

Needs grow crusted
old chains rusted
crime scene dusted
malefactors busted

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Dual Doggerels Dueling

oblivion

shadows of doubt
valley of death
medical miracles
nurturing breath

blind, obdurate converts
true believers going deaf
zealots willfully wayward
dying, grieving and bereft

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reset

clouds have a life
overshadow the earth
overseeing the folly
men sully its worth

clouds have a life
overshadow the earth
gone are the good times
men’s reason for mirth

clouds have a life
overshadow the earth
patience has limits
awaits a new birth

clouds have a life
overshadow the earth
awaiting the promise
a new age calls forth

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Uneven Bars

There be lovers make each other crazy
Who could not live without the other
And some who hate, despise another
Need their skills to survive together
Mother, father, sister, brother
Shadows different share one color

Genetic mix interweaves the fabric
Daily mesh else fate turns tragic
Complements compliment identities
Races dovetail, sacred serendipity
Intricate patterns’ perfect magic

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positioned

to sit a chair
face front
to the back of it
is to escape
its capture
is to have a wall
against the world
to prop on
and peer over
a shadow presence
braced at ease
to slip away
out the back door
a quick escape
without notice
or by-your-leave

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5s & 7s

sleek as crouching death
low-slung pause, twitchy patience
the grey cat, Shadow
limpid shadows cast by glass
blue shadows of drifting smoke

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shadow side of love
bright light trying best to shine
sourcing darker pain

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shy-born introvert
calcified or crucified
timid shadows hide

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Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.
~Eva Ibbotson

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.
~Sylvia Plath

I have a feeling only for shadows
~Odilon Redon

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
~Sylvia Plath

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.
~Mahatma Gandhi

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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane.
~Vladimir Nabokov

The smell of the sea hugged the fog in the redwood trees,
All cool and dank, dimly lit and rank with green,
And in shadowed limbs the Stellar jays jabbered free,
And me, standing silently, an alien in this enchanted scene
~Madison Grant

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A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I’ve come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to, and without meaning.
~Li-Young Lee

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.
~Black Elk

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You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
~J R R Tolkien

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
~Carl Jung

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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
~C S Lewis

The light is always shining, to see it we must stop focusing on the shadows it casts.
~Kim Clarkin

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Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
~Louisa May Alcott

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
~Aeschylus

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
~E M Forster

There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and shadow would not be able to follow him and then he never ever had to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him. And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the ground. But if he been standing still there hadn’t been any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow had been swallowed of the trees shadow.
~Benjamin Hoff

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In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

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All you need to forecast the weather is a stone on a string —
• Stone wet: Rain • Stone dry: Not raining • Shadow on ground: Sunny
• White on stone: Snow • Can’t see stone: Foggy • Swinging stone: Windy
• Jumpy stone: Earthquake • Stone gone: Tornado
~Author unknown

I have opals that burn always, with a flame that is cold as ice, opals that make sad men’s minds, and are afraid of the shadows.
~Oscar Wilde

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Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
~Jerome K Jerome

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
~Thomas Browne

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.
~William Shakespeare

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Capture a shadow,
dance with the wind,
stand in a rainbow,
begin at the end.
~Mary Anne Radmacher

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