It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.
quote by William E. Gladstone
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
quote by Pamela Stephenson
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There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.
quote by Lisa Guerrero
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Declare your line of conduct without reticence.
Anyhow I enjoy.
Blinded by your look,
I am stupefied;
Deafened by your reticence,
I am deadened;
Dumb by your oomph,
I am hypnotized.
If you nod or not,
I will go mad.
05.04.97
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The Bulk
attuned to the bulk of my poetry
day to day in volumes and volumes
one day she will be missing a poem from me
for on the null days of my life
when the words sometimes are mere appendages
of truths
there shall be no more poem to post
writer's block and a consciousness growing
helplessly screaming for the glorious and the great
One
panicky, and trembling, now facing the greatness of the Light
of the Great One
speechless and awed and bowing to the True One
poetry vanishes
to such beauty indescribable and so sweet and peaceful
tranquility in perfection
no ripples on the river
no stone on the sand
no tree on the road
no cliff no heights no mountain no plain
such is the place i have seen
my lips like chocolate dissolving
my mouth unable to speak
my eyes unable to see
Oh Great One
Take me.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Lines consist of an infinite number of points; planes an infinite number of lines; volumes an infinite number of planes, hypervolumes an infinite number of volumes... No, this, this more geometrico, is definitely not the best way to begin my tale. Affirming a fantastic tale's truth is now a story-telling convention; mine, though, is true.
Jorge Luis Borges in The Book of Sand (1975)
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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My privilege
I had my self-respect till I met you.
I had my ego intact until I met you.
Now I lost my pride and prestige
At your adamant heart and reticence.
Yet, I am happier to have the privilege
Of not being out of your focus..
09.01.2000, Palakkad
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Rational Ants
From the volumes of total strength
A lesson transmitted a whole death;
One mighty foot descended at the attacker,
These ants wore a tiny prison of poison
Wrecking a fortunate end and destiny.
What do these fiends construct?
The ants antagonize and answer
A few rude joys, offering a majesty
Of wealth and learning to the escapees.
This train has journeyed from the lessons
Where teaching asked a question from the heart
And the head was heavy with thoughts of your majesty.
I see volumes of work in the tall buildings,
Bolstering a new set of worshiping places
That descend on the heaving masses
Of this whole rational thinking.
poem by Naveed Akram
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A sound of silence
A sound of silence
~
Silence that distant sound
Speaks volumes of variety
One mans peace another’s fear
Between the words unsaid
And those wanted to be spoken
The holding presence silence brings
A time of reflection is found
To rest upon a thought content
Or contend with a growing fear
A paranoid mind suffers silence
Broods its every moment
Where the calm is at peace
Embracing fully everything
Silence that distant sound
Speaks volumes of variety
poem by Matthew Holloway
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Who of you I love?
While I loved you I loved your lankness.
While I loved you I loved your thinness.
Likewise I liked your reticence and coyness.
Which is the cause: you or your attributes?
23.03.2001, Pmdi
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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You aren’t silent.
Your silence tells me
That you aren’t silent.
Your reticence tells me
That you aren’t reluctant.
The beauty of seeing you
Is more beautiful than you.
Desires add value
When things are hard to come.
06.11.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Incurable absence
Is it because she was so bourgeois
That I was drawn to her?
Or is it her modesty, or her exclusive
Offer that lured me?
Or her repute for reticence?
Time must heal; space must cure.
In spite of time past and space changed
Why must she still torment me?
08.10.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
quote by Charlie Sheen
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?
quote by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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You Have The Answer..
If you are sincere
Ask for me
And I will come
And stay beside you
Forever...
I need to know
That you want my love now
Tonight!
As I do yours...
I cannot resolve
Reticence
Without your word
Because it is too
A great risk...
To offer oneself
Without hope
Of an answer....
Yet, my love, the fact remains
! I love you!
It will not change...
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poem by Romeo Della Valle
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
quote by Herbert Spencer
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There are silences that speak volumes as there are words that mean nothing.
quote by Edith Piaf
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