Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
quote by Antonio Porchia
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Spontaneous Brevity Life Celebration
joy leap joy skip joy dance
joy in brevity of life lives
joy in brevity life celebration
joy in a moment pace lives
poem by Terence George Craddock
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An Elegy In Frost
Cold sunshine writes our elegy in frost,
Author of light a million snowflakes lost,
All gone forever into swirling air,
A dance of death that is no longer there.
Pure poetry becomes a stanza said,
Classical white a message left unread,
While we stand longing for a winter past,
Hurt by a mood that was too fey to last.
West is a shadow wrapped around frail bones,
Your hand in mine for eloquence atones.
Touch is a brevity that needs no sound
To turn the weather of the world around.
poem by Sandra Fowler
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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
quote by Henry Van Dyke
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
quote by William R. Alger
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How Great
Like a mother mine was delighted she gave birth
It feels as great as we felt coming to live on earth
Great as we thought it was when joining school
Highly respectable as we perceived our graduation
with great love of money for love and infatuation
Much as we thought money made people great
Then the job made great impact on love perception
We were held higher by those thinking we were great
Our mind made us take a great pride in education
With little regards to the good great book we forgot
For great eloquence in language for communication
For great crowds of ladies and gentlemen we fought
The more lovers one has, the easier it was to feel great
How great was the lavish and satisfaction
How great the diversity and the depth we experienced
How great the comfort to feel the hardness and softness
How great on earth does it taste fornication?
How great when we fear not for our Godlessness
How great when we die is going to be our tribulation?
poem by Linus Kithinji Njeru
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
quote by Joseph Addison
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We Should Be Stingier
We should be stingier
breathing out and breathing in-
then, perhaps, the epic
will lie down in neat quatrains.
We have to be more generous,
louder, like the outcry 'Follow me! '
stronger, coarser-
with the earth's coarse globe.
I envy the relics of space,
compressed by the word in layers,
but brevity is the sister of ineptitude
when it springs from emptiness.
Not all conciseness is priceless.
Rhymed oil cakes are stiff and brittle,
and someone's square hay,
I wouldn't eat if I were a horse.
I like hay by the armful,
with the dew still not dried out,
with red whortleberries, with mushroom caps,
clipped by a scythe.
All sentimentality with form is sloppy,
hurl the epoch into rhythm,
tear it up the way an invalid in despair
tears up his striped sailor's shirt!
Should we place in a woman's cap and dress
along with other old-fashioned rags,
the divine tatters
that we call life?
Handicraft taste is not art.
A great reader will grasp
both the charm of the absence of style
and the splendor of longeurs.
1986
Translated by Albert C. Todd
poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Unsmeared View
the child sees the world
as it is, its charm and loveliness
the mountain for its glory
the birds for their brevity of songs
and woman for her propensity
to shower him warm kisses
a child is a bouquet or rose
that opens to us an unsmeared view of love
till racism and religious bigotry dislodge
him from that sacred sanctuary
to fall into a sea of distorted values
where he shuttles helplessly between love and hate
ask hitler, saddam hussein, who left nothing
but shredded, withered and torn roses
flying into our path
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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In Our Eloquent Silence
in the silence of my eloquence
i hear the slow pace of our breath
as i rest my head on your heart
seeking asylum from the world
in the silence of your eloquence
i hear the murmur of your love
as you unravel my mysterious self
between your binding arms...
05mar2010
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poem by Indira Babbellapati
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Charming Beauty
Your glow has humbled the glorious moon
To your charm, my love, no one is immune
From your radiance the sun gets the light
Your beauty has conquered the world outright
Everybody yearn to see your face
The kings pay homage to your charm and grace
There isn't a man your lips can't lure
And there s no ill your kiss can't cure
And for Hafiz also it's a great treat
If once in a while he kiss your feet.
poem by Lawrence Hiung
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A Closed Life
When his life was closing
The enchantment and charm
Grew phenomenally, like a bird in flight.
One after-life is better than all,
For dying is death done!
The brave speech muttered is uttered,
Forsaking all requests for all of the time.
This hour is final for him,
Like a steward for any man to care,
He is so dead that dying is artful.
O the charm in manners of the pen!
This simple utensil lifts the charm,
But the charm returns and describes itself.
poem by Naveed Akram
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
quote by Henry Ellis
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Not Romantic
My wife says I'm not romantic,
I don't suppose I am
I think I'm just an average bloke
Doing the best I can;
I think about my lady
And not just now and then
I tell her that I love her
As much as other men.
But this is NOT romantic
It's just not good enough!
She wants the constant flattery
She wants the gooey stuff;
Not just every weekend
Or even days between
She wants the flowers hourly
And treating like a queen.
If truth be told, I'm lazy
And think it doesn't matter
I haven't got the eloquence,
The charm, the chat, the patter;
I've got to be quite honest,
Straightforward and pedantic
My wife is right, I'm not
And never will be a romantic.
(Written June 2000)
poem by John Carter Brown
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Don't Forget who is your Father
God is Great
He created you and me so ladies and gentleman
he is the only person to praise and pray
Cause some of us we pray Alan people you pray him
who is him God is the one who created us
so guys help me to Thank him every time i'm sick i call him cause
he is the hiller the killer of diseases in the world
Help me to sing.
How great is our God sing with me how great is our God
all we sing is how great is our God age to age praise his
Great great great great great
great great great great great great great
great great great great great great great
great great great great great great great great great great great
GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD..
Thank you Help me pliz.
poem by Ruvimbo Daisy Matsika
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
quote by Dorothy Parker
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Polonius: Brevity is the soul of wit.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
quote by Hosea Ballou
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