About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #699488 added June 17, 2010 at 2:34pm Restrictions: None
Proverbs
Proverbs are sometimes metaphorical, but mostly, they are based on common human experience. Every culture has its own proverbs. In history, the Bible with the Book of Proverbs and the Latin culture in general played a considerable role in distributing proverbs across Europe. Proverbs are useful in writing, whether you take a proverb and make a story or poem out of it or you apply it to an already existing but not quite finished work.
I started getting tweets from a Twitter site called Ancient Proverbs. Each time they send me one, I realize once again how universal and how regardless of time and place the ancients’ words sound.
Here are a few proverbs from Twitter’s Ancient Proverbs:
Three methods to learn wisdom: 1 reflection, which is noblest; 2 imitation, which is easiest; & 3 experience, which is the bitterest. –Confucius
One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool. -Chinese Proverbs
The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -Jewish Proverb
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. -Chinese Proverb
Bad is never good until worse happens. -Danish proverb
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. -African proverb
Every path has its puddle. -English proverb
Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson
What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away. -Chinese Proverbs
Who ceases to be a friend never was one. -Greek Proverb
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