“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.” PeopleMindFirstsArtRealBodySpiritIndividualFeltVoiceTeachSuccessfulMovementPoetBirthUltimateImportanceAddUniversityFulfillmentSubtlePoetry IsLastingWorks Of ArtRepublicWorthwhileScholarLockedSensibilityPrimalUnnoticedFirst Things First Author:Guy Davenport
“What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.” TryingHardTeachBirthFarmersAgricultureSecretaryCornBirth ControlHog Author:Will Rogers
“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.” WantTwoDiesAsksFoundWaitingAnswersTeachOur LivesBirthCreaturesConsciousStructure Author:Matthew Woodring Stover
“It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.” TryingBelieveHeartImportantMatterFeelingsI BelieveSexSleepTeachSonBirthPeriodsClothesMy SonMechanicFertileBirth Control Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.” WorldNeedsFeelsStillsRealCharacterPastReligionWomenInterestTeachBirthVainDiscussionHolinessDogmaVirginsSeekersUsefulnessPresent DayDogmatismOld DogBrotherlyBrotherly LoveVirgin Birth Author:Olympia Brown
“The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?” PersonsSometimesFactsHappensFatherStarsTeachTakenDependsBirthLowsThings HappenMake Things HappenHoroscopes Author:Sallust
“Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.” MadeSoulPhilosophyBodyFormIndividualStarsStuffTeachBirthAncientEsoteric Book:Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn Source: Dreams of Isis: A Woman's Spiritual Sojourn
“The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.” GivingShouldHumansLongDoeValuesCultureProcessHuman BeingsConsciousnessTeachBirthSpringRewardsCuriosityAbstractCollectivesExpensesInteriorsAutonomySchoolingLife And TimeCollective Consciousness Book:A Language Older Than Words Source: A Language Older Than Words
“My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.” ChildrenSometimesKidsWantedTeachBirthDadMy DadGrandmotherFrustratedMy GrandmotherPassed Away Author:Dakota Fanning
“One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it” KnowsGivingStoriesUseNightGirlBornTeachKnow HowFireBabyBirthOne DayKissingLaysTinyBurningScreamBaby Girl Author:Nicole Blackman