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*** Positive Sayings for this Positive Image ***
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ROBERT FROST… AND A POEM TO LIGHTEN YOUR SPIRIT
“There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach:
the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind.
It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.”
- Robert Frost (1874-1963), Poet
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“I'd rather be a Could-Be
If I cannot be an Are;
Because a Could-Be is a May-Be
Who might be reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a Has-Been
Than a Might-Have-Been by far,
For a Might-Have-Been has never been
But a Has-Been was once an Are!”
- Milton Berle (1908-2002), Comedian
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HAVE FUN WITH A MOTIVATIONAL POEM
“Work while you work,
Play while you play;
One thing each time,
That is the way.
All that you do,
Do with your might;
Things done by halves
Are not done right!”
--- In other words: Do what you're doing while you're doing it.
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WHAT A GREAT POET CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT LIFE...
“This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and the sun and the animals,
despise riches,
give alms to every one that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown
or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons
and with the young
and with mothers of families,
read these leaves in the open air
every season of every year of your life,
re-examine all you have been told at school
or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem
and have the richest fluency
not only in its words but in the silent lines
of its lips and face and between the lashes
of your eyes and in every motion
and joint of your body . . .”
- from the introduction to
Leaves of Grass (1865)
By Walt Whitman
