9th sentences from literature, but actually 3rd of poems

It was Joyce (PA grandma) who started a column of jokes and words of wisdom on this Depression forum, and whose last column was on 5/1/2018, and who passed away not long after that.

I helped her with her column for about a week and got used to looking up sayings so that I could do that column. So, recently I'm looking around under authors and comments they’ve printed, and it reminds me of those sayings that I put in the column.

And it reminds me of Joyce.

This is actually the 3rd set of poems.

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

The Cold Within
by Zoe Rankin

Six humans trapped by happenstance in black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story’s told.

Their dying fire in need of logs, the first man held his back,
for on the faces around the fire he noticed one was black.

The next man, looking across the way, saw one not of his church,
and couldn’t bring himself to give the fire his stick of birch.

The third man sat in tattered clothes. He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should he put his log in to warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thought of the wealth he had in store,
and how to keep what he had earned from the lazy, shiftless poor.

The black man’s face bespoke revenge as the fire passed out of sight;
for all he saw in his stick of wood was a chance to spite the white.

The last man of this forlorn group did naught except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave to him was how he played the game.

Their logs held tight in death’s still hands was proof of human sin.

They didn’t die from the cold without.
They died from the cold within.

Thanks HT. Yeah, there is something about poetry. It fills a gap, whereas just regular writing is more on the surface.

Or, as is said above, "“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

Or, as Robert Frost said, "Poetry begins with a lump in the throat."

As in, "If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

Yes, HT, well said,

"Beyond the realms of suffering
Is the bliss of eternal compassion. By HT"

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"Happiness can't be found , wen u seek It for urself
But wen u give to others , It 'll find its way back to u ...
Dats The Mystery of HAPPINESS...!!"

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
-Hubert H. Humphrey

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand."

traditional gaelic blessing

You wrote:

The equpoise of life,
Alike stagnate water....
As we may be:
Thus stir it up,
Clear it will be.

By HT

That is food for thought. With equipoise being equilibrium or balance, the net says.
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1. “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

2. “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

3. “My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

4. Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
Year: 1851
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

5. "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that."
—J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

6. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

7. Even though the world doesn’t understand you, it needs you. It needs people like you because you give it balance, you give people hope and you remind people that it’s okay to be real, soft and vulnerable. You remind people that it’s okay to be a non-perfect human being.
— Rania Naim, To The Ones Who Are Tired Of Apologizing For Their Feelings

Trina said,

"The narcissist lies to get their gain

"Hides the selfishness, charms the optimist

"The snobbish narcissist is comfortable

"Sees the world as wonderful

"Their true wealth is not recognized

"Regrets nothing when lost, only monetary gain

"Will this person die cold and alone?

"Absolutely possible, sad yet true.

"The narcissist is most important

"All else is secondary, including death."

I don’t know who’s catching your wrath, Trina, but somebody had better look out.

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” —Bram Stroker, Dracula

1. “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” —J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

2. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
The Picture Of Dorian Gray; Author: Oscar Wilde; Year: 1890

3. "I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

4. “She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” —Kate Chopin, “The Awakening”

5. "I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates