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A Desire For Positive Impact
A Desire for Positive Impactby Michael DoyleThis an age that embraces the apocalypse constantlyIt is hard to find anyone left who feels empathyFor those who want to live a life to its fullest measureIt is as though we have forgotten … Continue reading
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Tagged Achievement, Age, Apocalypse, Beacon of Light, Calamity, Challenges, Connection, Demise, Desire, Doing, Empahty, Fulfillment, Goethe, Imagination, Kernels of Wisdom, Life, Measure, New Experences, Nurture, Poetry and Poems, Positive Impact, Potential, Rage Against the Night, Satisfication, Thinking, Treasure, True Action, Vanity
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Deepest Roots
Deepest Rootsby Michael DoyleCast about with questioning looksThere’s much to be learned from great booksWhen we unlock our dulled hesitationsAnd dare to ask the great questionsAlthough the human spirit is quite flappableIt doesn’t take a lot to realize, we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Cannot Shake, Cast About, Dare, Decisions, Determine, Determined, Determining Our Course, Essence of Things, Fallen Sage, Flappable, Fragile Youth, Fullest Passion, Goethe, Grasping, Great Books, Great Questions, Hestitations, Human Spirit, Incalculable Ways, Learn, Life Should Be Lived, Love of Life, Old Age, Passing Days, Pleasure of Fashion, Poetry and Poems, Private Resolution, Questioning Look, Realize, Revolution, Searching, Set Fast, Shaken As It Is, Sorrow, Spoken Aloud, Stirring, Straws, Tomorrow, Truth, Unconquerable, Unlocked, Werther, Wise, Youth
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Dream Big Ghazal
Poem A Day #4 is to be of the Ghazal poetry form. Ghazals were originally popularized and written by such notables as Rumi and Hafiz of Persia. Through the influence of Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe Ruth, Courage, Daughters, Discourage, Distance, Dream Big, Dreams, Edison, Encourage, Father, Focus, Ghazal, Goethe, Home Run King, Little Girls, Locus, Love, Music, Nighttime, North Star, Nurture, Poem A Day, Poetry, Promise, Right Thing, Rumi, Science, Sing, Sleep, Star
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Wilhelm Tell – Friedrich von Schiller
The legendary date on which Tell shot an apple off the head of his son with an arrow was November 18, 1307 “Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Crossbow, Drama, Friedrich von Schiller, Goethe, Habsburg Empire, Harvard Classics, Independence, Playwright, Swiss, Switzerland, Wilhelm Tell
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today is the celebration of the birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on August 28, 1749. There may be no better day fit for an examination of his classic work, Faust. Faust is an excellent tragic play in two parts. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Devil, Faust, German, Goethe, Harvard Classics, Literature, Philosophy, Play, Soul, Tragedy, Tragic
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