Quotes - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti:

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poem - Belshazzar had a letter By Emily Dickinson

Belshazzar had a letter:

Belshazzar had a letter,—   
He never had but one;   
Belshazzar’s correspondent   
Concluded and begun   
In that immortal copy               5
The conscience of us all   
Can read without its glasses   
On revelation’s wall.   

Vocabulary - Mittconception

Mittconception:

A fundamental belief of Mitt Romney's, based on mistaken understanding of an issue.

Mitt Romney says he's unemployed? Dude, that's another Mittconception. He has no idea what it's like to depend on a weekly paycheck.

Quotes - Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Stevenson:

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Vocabulary - Bark

Bark:

A sailing ship, typically with three masts, in which the foremast and mainmast are square-rigged and the mizzenmast is rigged fore-and-aft.

Vocabulary - Errand

Errand:

A short journey in order to do something for someone, for example delivering or collecting something for them.

I seemed to spend my life running errands for people.

She was always sending me on errands.

I couldn’t stop because I was on an errand.

He quickly set out on his errand of mercy.

Vocabulary - Docile

Docile:

Quiet and easily controlled.

The once docile population has finally risen up against the ruthless regime.

Labradors are gentle, docile dogs.

Persian: رام، مطیع، حرف شنو

Poem - Whether my bark went down at sea By Emily Dickinson

Whether my bark went down at sea:

Whether my bark went down at sea,   
Whether she met with gales,   
Whether to isles enchanted   
She bent her docile sails;   
 
By what mystic mooring                         5
She is held to-day,—   
This is the errand of the eye   
Out upon the bay.

Vocabulary - Tight Wad

Tight Wad:

A stingy person; a miser.

He is a real tight wad.

Persian: خسیس

Poem - ’T was such a little, little boat By Emily Dickinson

’T was such a little, little boat:

’T was such a little, little boat   
That toddled down the bay!   
’T was such a gallant, gallant sea   
That beckoned it away!   
 
’T was such a greedy, greedy wave            5
That licked it from the coast;   
Nor ever guessed the stately sails   
My little craft was lost!

Vocabulary - Enmity

Enmity:

A feeling of hatred towards someone.

The enmity between the two communities.

She denied any personal enmity towards him.

Bitter historical enmities underline the present violence.

Persian: دشمنی، خصومت، عداوت

Poem - I had no time to hate, because By Emily Dickinson

I had no time to hate, because:

I had no time to hate, because   
The grave would hinder me,   
And life was not so ample I   
Could finish enmity.   
 
Nor had I time to love; but since            5
Some industry must be,   
The little toil of love, I thought,   
Was large enough for me.

Quotes - John Dewey

John Dewey:

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Vocabulary - Bequest

Bequest:

A legacy; money or property that you arrange to give to someone after your death.

Her will included small bequest to her family, while most of her fortune went to charity.

Persian: ارثیه، میراث، ترکه

Vocabulary - Robust

Robust:

(of a person, animal, plant, or object) Strong and healthy; vigorous.

Persian: نیرومند

Poem - He ate and drank the precious words By Emily Dickinson

He ate and drank the precious words:

He ate and drank the precious words,   
His spirit grew robust;   
He knew no more that he was poor,   
Nor that his frame was dust.   
He danced along the dingy days,            5
And this bequest of wings   
Was but a book. What liberty   
A loosened spirit brings!

Now I lay me down to sleep

Now I lay me down to sleep:

Now I lay me down to sleep is a classic children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.

Thank you Lord for another day,
The chance to learn, the chance to play.
Now as I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Please, guard me, Jesus, through the night,
And keep me safe till morning's light.
But should I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
And should I live for other days,
I pray that God will guide my ways.
Amen

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Quotes - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick:

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Quotes - J.C. Ryle

J.C. Ryle:

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Quotes - Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud:

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Vocabulary - Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Body Dysmorphic Disorder:

A mental condition in which someone wrongly believes that part of their body is very ugly or not normal.

Poem - I taste a liquor never brewed By Emily Dickinson

I taste a liquor never brewed:

I taste a liquor never brewed,   
From tankards scooped in pearl;   
Not all the vats upon the Rhine   
Yield such an alcohol!   
 
Inebriate of air am I,                                     5
And debauchee of dew,   
Reeling, through endless summer days,   
From inns of molten blue.   

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Quotes - Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch:

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Vocabulary - Enlighten

Enlighten:

Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.

Baldwin enlightened her as to the nature of the experiment.

Persian: آگاه کردن

Enlightened:

Showing a good understanding or knowledge of something.

We don’t actually know, but I can make an enlightened guess.

Poem - Pain has an element of blank By Emily Dickinson

Pain has an element of blank:

Pain has an element of blank;   
It cannot recollect   
When it began, or if there were   
A day when it was not.   
 
It has no future but itself,               5
Its infinite realms contain   
Its past, enlightened to perceive   
New periods of pain.

Quotes - Raul Seixas

Raul Seixas:

I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything.

Vocabulary - Renown

Renown:

The condition of being known or talked about by many people; fame.

He has won world renown for his films.

He achieved some renown as a football player.

Persian: شهرت

Vocabulary - Fagot

Fagot:

A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification.

Poem - Read, sweet, how others strove By Emily Dickinson

Read, sweet, how others strove:

Read, sweet, how others strove,   
Till we are stouter;   
What they renounced,   
Till we are less afraid;   
How many times they bore                5
The faithful witness,   
Till we are helped,   
As if a kingdom cared!  

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Quotes - José Martí

José Martí:

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.