“All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.” ThinkingLongI CanEndsDoneHelpingRunningMovingOrderLostKnownListeningGoes OnLosingTasksForgottenAccomplishHelp MeLabourLong RunsNeglectedConsoleGetting Lost Book:The Unnamable Source: The Unnamable
“Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.” MarriageListeningMarriedEternityForgottenCaringAtmosphereMarried LifeMisguidedNot CaringChristmas GiftUnkindness Author:Judith Viorst
“We need to close every church in the land for one Sunday and cease listening to a man so we can hear the groan of the Spirit which we in our lush pews have forgotten.” MenNeedsSpiritChurchLandListeningForgottenCeaseSundayLush Author:Leonard Ravenhill
“I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensListeningForgottenSingersCoreObsessedObsessiveJust ListenAnalyzing Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant
“When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.” LittlesLongSaidBigsHouseSoundSleepWindListeningLong TimeSingingLonelyLaysForgottenWoodsGladAwakeLong Time AgoGoing To SleepCozyFiddleLauraLittle House On The Prairie Book:Little House in the Big Woods Source: Little House in the Big Woods