"I'm here with a cause, I'm holding a torch In the corner of your room-can you hear me? And when your dancing, and laughing and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly." --Morrissey <3
"You fail only if you stop writing." --Ray Bradbury
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury
"Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations." --Ray Bradbury
"The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief." - T.S. Eliot
"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me." - T.S. Eliot
"I write because I am curious. I am curious about me." - Pat Mora
"While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not." -Li-Young Lee
"Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"- Claude McKay
"All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players" --Shakespeare
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops – at all"
--Emily Dickinson
"All human wisdom is wrapped up in two words--wait and hope" --Emily Dickinson
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession" --Robert Frost
"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length." --Robert Frost
"Half the world is made up of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half, who have nothing to say, keep saying it." --Robert Frost
"The purpose of education: The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him." --John Milton
"God doth not need
Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best." --John Milton
"Being alive is a common road, It's what we notice that makes us different." --Naomi Shihab Nye
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently."--Maya Angelou
"If you must write prose and poems The words you use should be your own Don’t plagiarize or take on loans
There’s always someone, somewhere With a big nose, who knows..." --Morrissey
"I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."--Oscar Wilde
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” --Oscar Wilde
"Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner."--Neil Galman
"I wish I could write as mysteriously as a cat." --Edgar Allan Poe
"Memory is an abstract painting. It does not present things as they are, but rather, as they feel." --Eugenia Collier
"My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye. You must be such a fool to pass me by." --Morrissey
"This is your life, are you who you want to be?" --Switchfoot
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."-- William Buttler Yeats
"The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,"--Matthew Arnold
"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."--Robert Browning
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." --Alfred Lord Tennyson
"For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.'' --Gerard Manley Hopkins
"You speak of Lord Byron and me—there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees—I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.''--John Keats
"Insults are arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." --Rousseau
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." --Voltaire
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."--Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"May you live all the days of your life."--Jonathan Swift
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." --Jonathan Swift
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence." --John Milton
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."--John Milton
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress
“Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?"
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Love is blind"--Geoffrey Chaucer
"Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.” -- Irenaeus
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." -- Romans 5:8
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for"-- Homer
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.” --Khaled Hosseini
“It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.”--Khaled Hosseini
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”--Khaled Hosseini
"Before I talk, I should read a book" -- The B-52's, "Mesopotamia"
"Fear and panic are two separate emotions. Fear is healthy. Panic is deadly." --from Chasing Mavericks
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." --Christopher Reeve
"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."-- James Thurber
"Today you face the consequences of yesterday's choices. Tomorrow you will face the consequences of today's choices." -- A.W. Tozer
"I want to be like the waves in the sea. I want to be like the clouds in the wind. But I'm me. One day I'll jump out of my skin and shake the sky like a hundred violins." --Sandra Cisneros
"The words are purposes. The words are maps." --Adrienne Rich
"To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard." --Allen Ginsberg
"Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" ---Claude McKay
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." --Harper Lee
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”--Harper Lee
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." --Ernest Hemingway
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” --Ernest Hemingway
“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.” --Ernest Hemingway
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers" --Langston Hughes
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid." --T.S. Eliot
"And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep." --Robert Frost
"Sugar is not a vegetable." --Gertrude Stein
“After we have asked the Spirit to tell us what Jesus would do and have received an answer to it, we are to act regardless of the results to ourselves. Is that understood?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, In His Steps
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” --Mark Twain
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” ― Mark Twain
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." --Mark Twain
"Simplicity is the glory of expression." --Walt Whitman
"Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again . . ." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."--Henry David Thoreau
“It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.”--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. It was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom." --Frederick Douglass
“There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell. ” ― Edgar Allan Poe
"There's other ways o' learnin' 'bout the behind feet of a mule than gettin' kicked by 'em, sure as I'm named Remus. And just 'cause these here tales is 'bout critters like Br'er Rabbit an' Br'er Fox, that don't mean they ain't the same like can happen to folks! So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned for listenin'." --Uncle Remus "Brer Rabbit"
“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne
"What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Love him to Eternity" --Anne Bradstreet
"I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books—where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas," --Langston Hughes
Elements of Literary Analysis 
“Tender Buttons” was the strangest thing I’ve ever read. It made absolutely no sense… which is why I love it! Of course, ‘sugar is not a vegetable’ and ‘the sash is not like anything mustard it is not
like a same thing that has stripes, it is not even more hurt than that, it has a little top’ are my favorite quotes. I loved the part where she said “mustard”. XD ! ~
How to write a sensation like ‘Tender Buttons’ in just two steps:
1) empty your mind completely.
2) write down whatever words come to mind. Nevermind if they aren’t even correct English, man, just write!
3) go over your literary masterpiece and laugh. never correct it or backspace, just keep it and publish it!
RESULT-
Button is pug have dog you to thank you in jay ugly hat. Refund seashell coral mustard hot-dog cat bug bat pug. Bird robin jay guy gutter boy ugly baseball cap. Ketchup Heinz Frozen Prince Hans of the Southern Isles in secretly Anna and Elsa’s tavern opal oval kitty snake. Kitty snake. KITTY SNAKE!!! AAAAH! Like a suitcase is a button, so scarves cannot be mustard. The end. Fin. Sugar is not a vegetable.
Man, write, man, write! Just write your answers onto the page! Use a baseball bat glove and use your tone toenail polish to your purpose wonderful quail. KITTY SNAKE! The end. Fin. Sugar is not a vegetable.
Rolling on the floor!!! LOLOL
You know the store Anthropologie? The overpriced haven of all things special? Well, I have a word I use for things, “hidden pretty.” If I find a jacket or a sweater and say the tag is done with a special fabric or embellishment, and no one will ever see it. That is hidden pretty. Oh pockets, that have yellow flowered fabric on the inside. Hidden pretty. A coffee cup that is all vintage and cute, but it has a green paint swipe on the inside (looks like an accident, but totally on purpose). Hidden pretty. It is added character. It is a statement. That is what so much of her work is like to me. No one sees it. I delight in something that no one else notices. It is hidden pretty. “Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question.” I probably make no sense. But in my head, Tender Buttons is like treasures from Anthropologie, made to look like family heirlooms, with detailed embellishments and character. Special. LOL. Okay enough of a peek into my crazy head!!!!
Haha NOW I understand it! ❤ Thank you, Mrs Brandi! ~ 😀 Wow… you mind is strange… I like it!
I have never been so confused before in my life…
A WHITE HUNTER
“A white hunter is nearly crazy.”
A SOUND.
“Elephant beaten with candy and little pops and chews all bolts and
reckless reckless rats, this is this.”
I think I like these the best. lol I really don’t know why but they just stood out and sorta made sense to me. lol
I love the elephant beaten with candy and little pops one!!!
“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same
question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful
cattle.”
exactly!
A DOG.
A little monkey goes like a donkey that means to say that means to say
that more sighs last goes. Leave with it. A little monkey goes like a
donkey.
Your Gravatar image just makes everything hilarious! XD
yes!!!
“Light blue and the same red with purple makes a change. It shows that
there is no mistake. Any pink shows that and very likely it is
reasonable. Very likely there should not be a finer fancy present. Some
increase means a calamity and this is the best preparation for three and
more being together. A little calm is so ordinary and in any case there
is sweetness and some of that.”
love it!
Sugar is not a vegetable.
It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume.
Supposing you do not like to change, supposing it is very clean that there is no change in appearance, supposing that there is regularity and a costume is that any the worse than an oyster and an exchange.
Is there not much more joy in a table and more chairs and very likely roundness and a place to put them.
A sight a whole sight and a little groan grinding makes a trimming such a sweet singing trimming and a red thing not a round thing but a white thing, a red thing and a white thing.
Dirty is yellow. (I didn’t like how this made absolutely no sense, but after I read this, I gave a slight chuckle out loud. I have no idea what is wrong with me but if someone says this to me I will most likely laugh…I’m weird).
The resemblance to yellow is dirtier and distincter.
Enthusiastically hurting a clouded yellow bud and saucer, enthusiastically so is the bite in the ribbon.
The kind of show is made by squeezing.
To be a wall with a damper a stream of pounding way and nearly enough choice makes a steady midnight. It is pus.
I believe I find the words yellow and pus funny
Your so strange… which is why your my best friend! ~ ❤ FINALLY, somebody who understands me! XD haha ~
I do too!!! Seriously, “It is pus” is like the funniest ever.
Would you still like us to turn in our papers on the Ray Comfort video?
yes!
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
I absolutely love this.
me too
My printer has no ink. So if anyone would print me out a copy of the timeline and give it to me on Friday, I’ll give you a heart- felt thank you. 🙂 lol
I’ll print it for ya, Lexis! ~ ^-^ No charge! …that’ll be 88 cents, please. (Lol I’m kidding. Sure, I’ll print it! <3)
Thank you!!! “)
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
He looks like Carl Fredricksen from Disney – Pixar’s “UP” and his poetry is amazing! God blessed this man with the gift and art of poetry ❤ You go, Carl – I mean – You go, Robert!
I never noticed that before, but you are right. I have this poem memorized. You should give it a go.
Will do ~ I want to
Robert Frost is one of my favorites, though I disagree with his views of freeverse. I have a book of selected poems of his.
Gertrude Stein utterly perplexed me; I don’t know just how I feel about her work. Part of me totally loves it while the other part is bothered by it.
Carl Sandburg, his poem “Fog” is one of my looongtime favorite poems of all time. Love this guy.
T.S. Elliott was pretty good too, I adore the last couple stanzas of “The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock”. I would like to read more of his work in the future:)
And Ms. Brandi, I absolutely love this stuff:) great job on the English course:) ❤
Agreed! Mrs. Brandi is an expert poet in her own way.
She writes poetry with her life: it is intriguing, strange, yet so special and blessed! ❤
Hope the Owl, you are so sweet ❤
heel erg bedankt ! ❤
I agree. Freeverse is very much an art. ❤ Thank you for liking the class!!! Thank you for the comments 🙂
I liked the poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”. I don’t know why, but it seems catchy.
It is good huh, I think we will talk about that one in class on Friday.
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg was so cute, even though it was so tiny! I think that’s mainly because I’m reading “Warrior Cats: Into the Wild” (Great book by the way, I’ve been reading it since I was in 3rd grade. No joke. I restarted the series. There’s 28 books in the entire Warrior Cat series! You should give it a go at http://www.warriorcats.com) I can vividly imagine a cat in the fog on it’s haunches, stalking a mouse, silently following it as he creeps stealthily by. ~ Ah, but, in my personal opinion, I imagine Carl Sandburg to be either a young, wealthy man or a little old man who’s all sweet and hunched over, who’s got battle scars from the wars he’s fought. I love old people ❤
What is cool is that tomorrow you will see T.S. Eliot also describe fog as a cat. It is cool that we are reading BOTH poems this week.
Tender Buttons
Light blue and the same red with purple makes a change. It shows that there is no mistake. Any pink shows that and very likely it is reasonable. Very likely there should not be a finer fancy present. Some increase means a calamity and this is the best preparation for three and more being together. A little calm is so ordinary and in any case there is sweetness and some of that.
What is the sash like. The sash is not like anything mustard it is not like a same thing that has stripes, it is not even more hurt than that, it has a little top.
Enthusiastically hurting a clouded yellow bud and saucer, enthusiastically so is the bite in the ribbon.
To be a wall with a damper a stream of pounding way and nearly enough choice makes a steady midnight. It is pus.
A shallow hole rose on red, a shallow hole in and in this makes ale less. It shows shine.
A little monkey goes like a donkey that means to say that means to say that more sighs last goes. Leave with it. A little monkey goes like a donkey.
“Fog”. ‘Nuff said.
“Fog” that was the shortest poem I have ever seen…..
Sandburg was intriguing,
and Stein was quite strange.
You claim that Eliot is best,
yet I differ and disagree.
Almost he is, almost purebred,
but it is plain to see.
Mr. Carl- I mean, Frost.
His poems are simply best to me.
Out of these four, you can
ignore all of the other three.
But only one has the key
to seek and make and create wonderful, real poetry.
My little horse must think it queer
to see you grinning ear to ear
at Eliot’s life in coffee spoons.
Now Eliot is surely doomed
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
“Brandi, it is plain to see,
Frost is simply best to me.”
But, in the end, I count not,
nor do the poems here.
My little horse must think is queer
to see we’ve been deceived.
God is the poet, so talented,
and we are His poetry.
Robert Frost –
He seems like a cool guy (judging from hid poems). I think he takes the spot for “favorite poet” on this week’s poem writers.
Carl Sandburg –
His poem style is short, simple and straight to the point, maybe too simple like the poem “Fog”
T. S. Eliot –
I think he’s good too, but I think I’d personally prefer Hopkins to read the poem. (brandiplsdontlowermygrade) lolno
XD ! “(brandiplsdontlowermygrade)”
Dear Lord, Eliot gave me the chills! I feel like I’m stuck in the Haunted Mansion… seriously, it’s scary.
Robert Frost: My favorite poem from him was “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”. I really enjoyed reading it, however, I don’t think there was a “hidden pretty” in this one :/.
Carl Sandburg: “Fog”….. That’s all I have to say. Just joking, but “Fog” is really short. Although it is short, and there really is no moral or anything like that, I think it should be considered a “hidden pretty”. The way he describes the fog, to me, took some time to picture, but I thought it was unique the way I pictured it.
T.S. Elliot: Okay, I liked this one a little too much. I read it three times, and it seems in every rhyme there is a “hidden pretty” there. I liked the words he used, and the way he used them. This author is my favorite out of all of them.
Robert Frost: I liked “The Road Not Taken” a lot. Especially the ending when he says, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Just wow. I love it
Carl Sandburg: “Fog” Okay, I didn’t really like this one. I don’t now maybe I just don’t have the “poetic” eye for it…
T.S Elliot: I liked this one. 🙂 I can agree (with demistars9) about his choice of words. I loved the words he used and the way he used them.
I like understanding whats going on, and i had no clue what Gertrude Stein was saying, therefore it wasn’t my cup of tea. I was tried reading it out loud hoping it would make more sense. It did not. It reminded me of third grade, when you would say random stuff to be funny or clever. i appreciated the way she wrote, the long run on sentences with a bunch of commas and then short staccato sentences. My favorite quote was “sugar is not a vegetable.”
Robert Frost: I really like Frost’s poems. They make you stop, analyze and take in what you are reading, which allows you to enjoy the poems even more. Out of the three, I favored Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Carl Sandburg: Sanburg’s poems where both descriptive and well written. In his poem Chicago, it made me relflect on what the city Chicago was like back then, and the lives of the people. “Fog” was very interesting, due to the wording Sandburg used to describe fog. It was fairly short, but that is what made this poem stand out even more.
T.S Elliot: Elliot’s structure, as well as his use of words, made the poem come to life. It was one my favorites out of all the other poems that I have read. I liked the fact that we got to listen to the poem by T.S Elliot and Anthony Hopkins. It brings it to a whole new perspective as you listen.
Do our quote papers have to be in MLA format?
I don’t think so… make it unique ! ~ ❤ Like how she showed us:
"BLAH BLAH BLAH. Quote, quote, quote. (Insert inspirational stuff here) Finn." ~Hope The Owl
"Hear the echo through the tunnel, hear the echo through the sky. Leave a footprint, make a ripple: leave something to show that you've been here behind." -Hope the Owl
In your case, it'd be:
"My name is Macey . I am a mutt. I like to eat pizza. I'm a dog. I'm not a frog. I'm so cute. Look at my nose. It looks like a button. This quote is strange. The end, and FINNI!" -Macey the Pizza
Robert Frost: Reading Robert Frost just makes me feel as wrapped up in a cozy blanket. The way his poems are written they just seem like you can snuggle up and read them.
Carl Sandburg: Oh my goodness, I absolutely loved Carl Sandburg, I read “Chicago” four times in a row and it was so much fun to read aloud. “Fog” was interesting because you glance at it and think “hmm well this doesn’t seem like much.” and it doesn’t have big fancy words or stanza upon stanzas to unravel a story, but its simple and ingenious.
T.S.Elliot: Having the poem read to me helped to understand it and each time I heard it, it just sounded pretty. Just the way it sounded was gorgeous.
Carl Sandburg: He has such meaning and depth implemented into his writings while they seem shallow and meaningless to the untrained eye. He delivers a powerful message in a very subtle way.
T.S.Elliot: He writes with such eloquence and serenity. It seems like the words flowed out of his mouth and right onto the paper. It doesn’t seem unnatural at all, like other writings can be. They may come off choppy or slightly broken, but T.S.Elliot avoids that completely.
Robert Frost: He writes poems that are to be read on a cold winters day, next to a roaring fire. Or on a nice summer day, in the park, with a slight breeze blowing. (LOL, my mind is crazy) Anyways. Robert Frost writes efficiently and allows his emotions and thoughts to come out through his work.
Someones trying to catch up I see haha. Don’t want to be a disgrace to your family. Dude seriously, reading your comment I can imagine you wearing your 1920’s attire with a cup of coffee petting a cat lol 😀
lol… that one day in my mom’s class… Not a cat!!! Kiwi!!! IG
Gertrude Stein: An interesting character, not quite sure how to explain her writing style as it comes across broken and spontaneous. Like she’s writing because she has the right to, with no meaning behind anything that she writes.