“Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.” MenMayMeanEndsEarsSoldierQuittingPostsThis DayPlato Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson
“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.” ThinkingGivingHumansMeanEvilHuman NatureGreatnessWillingReadyGoodnessEarsWelcomeJealousyReportsCalumnyCalumny Is Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd-- A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he sees The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.” KnowsMenWorldHeartMeanFeelingsHandsEyeLyingLostVoiceHoursSunClearShotsFlowEarsBelovedToneBreastsOur WorldInwardBreezePulseMeadowsBoltsCaressJadedGlare Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems
“Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer” IfsMenMeanLittlesPrayerSpeechEarsDeniedFlingIf Then Book:Dickinson Source: Dickinson
“I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.” IfsThinkingWellsMeanEyeActorsEars Author:Morgan Freeman