Talking about art is like dancing about architecture. Bowie.

“They’d never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they’d been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes

It’s good to behold beauty and to live with wisdom.

Where there is peace, there is blessing.

Tell not all you know nor judge of all you 
see if you would live in peace. Sp.

David Scheid; A man of words and not deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

 

Fools and weeds grow without rain.

Summer afternoon… to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~ Henry James

I am weary,

Weary of bracing myself against the sun’s hot hand;

I am weary, and I dream of cool places . 

Louis Lavater

1867 – 1953

http://australianpoems.tripod.com/summer.html

It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest.

When the treasure chest is open, even the just man sins.
Ecuador

Love rules his kingdom without a sword.

Many words hurt more than swords.

Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.

Break the rules. Find your freedom. Live your life.

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1930), Sunday 22 November 1903,

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

A quote from Bob Marley, which means that in order for you to be truly free, you must not let others get inside your head and dictate how to live your life.

http://www.tattoo-models.net/100-best-tattoo-quotes/

Nothing but tolerance would change the course of her winds … Freedom, to unlock denial; freedom, that incorrigible weapon.

Vicki Viidikas

http://rochfordstreetreview.com/tag/australian-poetry/

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. Robert Burton (1577 – 1640) English scholar, writer, clergyman

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters.

Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

 

The power of prayer does not lie in its ability to change the world we live in as much as in its potential to change we who live in the world.

George Tyger (Unitarian Universalist; Chaplain, U.S. Army)War Zone Faith

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up. Helen Cross, My Summer of Love

 

 

The Ocean’s Deception in the Moon’s Reflection Aroma like fresh twilight, spring is here, Evening sewn together with dark’s silver tears, Lie on the sand, watching the moon rise, Call upon the stars, bring day’s demise. Water, like crystal, displays the reflection, Shimmering like diamonds, wonderful deception, The mirror image, so beautiful, so real, Like two night skies, until reality revealed. I watch the ocean, the second wondrous sky, The awing lack of motion, fool any passerby, And here I saw a young man, disorientated, Walk to the ocean’s edge, stopped, contemplated, I heard him whisper that he could for once touch perfection, He reached for a star in the sky’s flawless reflection. Alas, as he reached, he could not grasp, Yet he thought just a miss, still could not see the mask, He waded deeper to try and touch the moon, But the ocean had fooled him and he was consumed. Just like a lover with a mask full of lies, The ocean dragged this man down to his demise, Now, sinking deeper, the perfection never touched, He tripped and he fell, from the blindness of lust. http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=171349

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. Rumi

 

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Here’s to the corkscrew – a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the gate of pleasant folly. W.E.P. French

http://valleygirlbajawine.com/wine-quotes-sayings-and-proverbs/

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. 

George D. Prentice (1802 – 1870) US newspaperman, editor, poet

http://hw.asourceofjoy.org/quotesonthetongue.htm

Beautiful words don’t put porridge in the pot. ~Botswana

http://afritorial.com/the-best-72-african-wise-proverbs/

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”

― Karen Marie Moning

A little fire that warms is better than a big fire that burns. Irish .

Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria

My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul

http://www.maori.cl/Proverbs.htm

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” ― Paulo Coelho

Please all and you will soon please none.      Aesop

Question: Mohlankana ya dulang lehaheng? (A young man who lives in a cave?) Answer: Leleme. (Tongue.)

Koketsu ni irazunba koji wo ezu)

If you do not enter the tiger’s cave, you will not catch its cub.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

You can’t do anything without risking something.

Read more: http://www.linguanaut.com/japanese_sayings.htm#ixzz2pVxZoPjO

A spoken word of feeling is a moment of trust to those hearing.

http://www.coolnsmart.com/trust_quotes/

Child, you are wise in your simple trust,
For the wisest man knows no more than you

Over The Range

by Banjo Paterson (1864-1941)

http://alldownunder.com/australian-authors/banjo-paterson/over-the-range.htm

 

 

Proverbs 10:8 ESV : The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

 

Language is an echo of our need to communicate, which is why it exists. I’ve never been interested in going totally beyond meaning, because there’s no point in writing. That’s not what poems are about, you might as well publish a leaf or a rock. But I am interested in the tensions you get when you go beyond conventionally expected meaning and come back again.   JOHN TRANTER. 

Fleying a bird is no the way to grip it.

To frighten a bird is not the way to catch it; severity or constant threatening do not tend to make children or servants better.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26150/26150-h/26150-h.htm

Birds are entangled by their feet, and men by their tongues.

Time flies like an arrow.

 

 

 

Four things come not back – the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

 

– Arabian

lunching alone gulls and sandpipers search the beach

https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr-summer-2013

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of their meaning. Once you’ve got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

-Chuang Tzu

 

“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.”

Robert Anthony

foto archibald fountain in sydney’s hyde park australia

You may not have very much sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES, Poems and Paragraphs

Read more at http://www.notable-quotes.com/w/wisdom_quotes.html#VOARsEZtUA5gGIo6.99

Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón.

Many a time a man’s mouth broke his nose.

http://www.gaelicmatters.com/funny-irish-sayings.html

foto ulmarra pub near grafton nsw australia

 

Adams and Flinders

Marc Glasby

Up in old Port Wyndham
back in the early days
at tale is told about two men
who wouldn’t mend their ways
 
Adams hated Flinders
they were the town’s JPs
They’d love to lock each other up
then throw away the keys
 
One hot and dusty afternoon
while drinking in the pub
insults turned to punches
over some imagined snub
 
Out in to the street they went
with flailing legs and arms
The cops came down and locked them up
before they came to harm
 
Then in the morning sobered up
there was one fact to face
Each would sit in judgment
upon the others case
 
Well Adams was the first to sit
upon the others crime
The gavel fell, the judgment was
a mere five shilling fine
  
Then Flinders turn to sit arrived
He donned his wig and frowned
‘There’s too much of this thing about
the fine will be ten pounds’
 
We don’t how it went from there
or how the story ends
but one thing we can bet for sure
they’d never be good friends

Aug 2000 Brisbane

http://www.wanowandthen.com/Ballads/text.html

I thought of what you’d written in faint ink, Your journal with the sawn-off lock, that stayed behind With other things you left, all without use

Five Bells
Ken Slessor

foto izzy foreal at bilambil nsw aust

“Hui Tzu said to Chuang Tzu:  “I have a big stinktree in my garden.   The trunk is so bent and knotty that nobody can get a good straight plank out of it.  The branches are so crooked you can’t cut them up in any way that makes sense.  There it stands beside the road and no carpenter will even look at it.   Such is your teaching, Chuang – big and useless.”
Chuang Tzu replied: “Have you ever watched the wildcat crouching, watching its prey?   This way it leaps, and that way,
high and low, and at last – it lands in the trap.  Have you ever seen the yak?   It is great as a thundercloud, standing in his might.
Big?  Sure.  But, he can’t catch mice!  So for your big tree.  No use?   Then plant it in the wasteland – in emptiness.  Walk idly around it and rest under it’s shadow.  No axe or saw prepares its end.  No one will ever cut it down.   Useless?  You should worry!”

–  Chuang Tzu, The Useless Tree, circa 200 B.C.

A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. (Sanskrit).

I Came to buy a smile—today—But just a single smile—The smallest one upon your faceWill suit me just as well—The one that no one else would missIt shone so very small—I’m pleading at the “counter”—…

Source: A man should avoid these six evils: lust, anger, avarice pleasure, pride, and rashness, for free of these he may be happy. (Sanskrit). | THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY

Bunny’s Excuse. There was once a wicked old sinner Who fancied a rabbit for dinner, But the bunny he met Said: “Don’t kill me yet, For I really am still a beginner.”

My living problems also cease to be struggles.

Heaven designs to suit our trials to our strength.

Though the sun shines, leave not your cloak at home.

” The queen’s mocking laughter cut in. “This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?”

“Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.”
― Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS

RISE TOGETHER

ADAM T NA SPEAKER

IF DRINKING DON’T KILL ME

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM

SMALL TRIBUTE FOR IZZY FOREAL BY PETER CARRUTHERS