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Post by SilentDream on Aug 20, 2009 16:09:49 GMT -5
 Ever come across something while reading that stayed with you, gave you something to dwell on ...or something that even inspired words of your own? Please share those quotes and book excerpts here.  Just give credit to the author if known. |
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Post by SilentDream on Aug 20, 2009 16:13:29 GMT -5
The Sound of Blue by Holly Payne is a book that I’ve yet to finish... The title is one that grabbed me though. And take a look at this excerpt just a few pages into the book: “She would take lunches along the Danube, spend evenings in cafés where poets and politicians gobbled cakes and cobbled history, mixing ink with icing, calling it sweet.” The story is about a composer with a unique condition of synesthesia, which allows him to hear sound when he sees color. When asked to describe the sound of blue, “Milan said it was beyond words, for words failed him, and he dismissed them as a waste of time. Music, he believed, achieved everything that language could not.” Milan has filled hundreds of notebooks with “the sound of blue.” “Music was both his refuge and sanctuary… He felt secure in the music and sheltered from the torment of seizures within the shades and shadows of blue.” Of course, I lingered for a while on these two pages… The comfort found in blue is something that I’ve written about and I’m not quite sure if I’ve yet to capture what I mean… There are both tangible and unseen things that feel blue to me. Things that are soft to the touch, serenity, cool raindrops… Milan captures the sound of blue in many of his compositions. That is something I would love to hear. He plays a piano…. I imagine Brian Crain’s Piano and Cello Duet sounds like blue. www.briancrain.com/newpages/PCDuet1.html The combination of the two instruments is soulful… and calming. I have to go further in the story though to read of the effects of Milan’s music on his listeners. So far it has only been his thoughts described, what music means to him. There is one more part that I lingered on for a while… having hit a writer’s block, seeing inspiration in this thought. When asked what composer does he identify with most… “Schubert.”
“Schubert, really?”
“They say his pen was half ink. Half tears.”
“Is sadness your inspiration?”
“Shadows. The part of us that scares us most.” I'm not even sure what to add to that... other than, wow. But it's definitely something I'll be thinking about and will possibly stir this drowsy muse of mine! ((Hugs and LOve)) ~SilentDream |
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Post by SilentDream on Aug 20, 2009 16:14:21 GMT -5
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem
to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and
we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~Henry David Thoreau
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Post by Lotus on Aug 20, 2009 16:27:17 GMT -5
A few lines from the series finale of a show I used to watch:
Are you writing?
No. The curse of an unwritten ending.
Oh. Make it a happy one, please. I can't take any more sad ones.
Stay away from the life and death of it all.
It's interesting how people use that expression -- life and death.
As if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but birth is the
opposite of death. Life... has no opposite.
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Post by Lotus on Aug 20, 2009 16:29:28 GMT -5
This is from the movie Pay It Forward.
The scene where the drifter sees a
woman standing on the railing of a
bridge and he's trying to convince
her to get down:
When asked why he wanted to help
her he said...
I owe someone a favor.
Not me.
Why not you?
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Post by Lotus on Aug 20, 2009 16:31:07 GMT -5
From my favorite card... If I were the sun,
I would write little notes to you
on all the leaves with golden ink
and leave them everywhere
for you to find.
~Hallmark |
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Post by Lotus on Aug 20, 2009 16:32:01 GMT -5
Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown
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Post by SilentDream on Nov 16, 2009 8:10:31 GMT -5
Author unknown.
No man or woman is worth your tears and the one who is, won't make you cry.
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Post by SilentDream on Nov 18, 2009 8:21:50 GMT -5
Author unknown.
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
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Post by SilentDream on Nov 19, 2009 7:08:57 GMT -5
Author unknown.
Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
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Post by SilentDream on Nov 26, 2009 16:17:40 GMT -5
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."
— Rose Kennedy
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Post by SilentDream on Dec 8, 2009 19:17:30 GMT -5
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Author unknown
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Post by SilentDream on Dec 10, 2009 9:49:20 GMT -5
Words are things and a small drop of ink falling like dew upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ~George Byron
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Post by SilentDream on Dec 22, 2009 23:09:27 GMT -5
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities." ~Christian Nestell Bovee
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Post by SilentDream on Dec 24, 2009 8:55:58 GMT -5
Author unknown.
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
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Just give credit to the author if known.
