<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580185" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Make Stone Sing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fashioning Stone to give a song in every turning, <br>by giving flow to glass that is not molten, <br>placing a dancing step within a twist of steel, <br>bringing life and warmth to wood long dead, <br>seeing the story in a shape, where none intended<br>this, surely is the alchemy in your Art</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By your hand and inner eye is the common<br>made to become uncommon, cherished, special.<br>Breathing sympathy into that which, by natures way, <br>is wrought from clay and holds no life nor feelings.<br>To balance shapes upon a pin within your mind<br>and be not breathless at the audacity in the thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To know the shape of time and space<br>To give bright image to a feeling.<br>To hold within your palm a sunset's touch, <br>and awaken within a dormant heart<br>the fires of something long forgotten.<br>To be a signpost to life's light and beauty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To comprehend the colours of emotion<br>and mirror them in paint and weft.<br>So that on their reading, each heart<br>and eye, is given choice of understanding.<br>To bring forth from base elements<br>The golden touchstone of the future.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To give yourself into the singing stone<br>So that hand and heart and mind<br>are laid bare, for all to witness.<br>To have the courage and the charity<br>to open your palms and show the workings<br>of your soul.<br>Should we not cherish such alchemy as this? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>TO JOE on your graduation <br> “In admiration of your own unique alchemy, ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Mitton">Bill Mitton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580185" data-title="To Make Stone Sing de Bill Mitton" data-description="In fashioning Stone to give a song in every turning, by giving flow to glass that is not molten, placing a dancing step within a twist of steel, bringing life and warmth to wood long dead, seeing the story in a shape, where none intended this,..."></div> </div> </div>

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