“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.” WritingChildrenHomeBodyLanguageUnitedPowerfulInfluenceAwarenessFieldsMarkVery GoodSentencesRhythmDimensionsShockMost PowerfulSongwritingTerritoryTribesAncestryGood WritersCadenceUnited Family Author:Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
“Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.” TryingMindImportantRealBodyHappensPowerfulActingImpossibleBloodMessagesVariousYour BodyFakeShockBeing RealImportant QuestionsGlands Author:Ben Kingsley
“Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.” ThinkingArtBodyMightImaginationWonderGraceHappenedTasteStrangerNakedShockVesselAnatomy Author:Robert Genn
“How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.” BodyJoyFallSidesGriefMysteryFieldsReadySummerGloryRoseLifetimeFishesSeedsBoatShockSandSilverWillingnessPaleLeafsSubmissionUnfathomable Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
“Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.” HumansDoeBodyLossMajorsImpactTraumaShockHuman Psyche Author:Anne Grant