Tag: #quotation

The A and O

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New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets.
Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
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As a teacher who for the last six years has had the privilege to introduce learners to our old friends this is a quote that is dear to my heart. My primary aim as an alphabetisation teacher is to introduce our alphabet to people as a step to integration into our society. But it goes beyond the functional reading. In time at least some of them might use the letters as bridges to start reading for enjoyment rather than pure function.

It is only fitting then the school building where this takes palce is named after a a local author:

Adam Karillon wrote about the Odenwald and the people around him. He was well known in the early 20th century, being the first recipient of the Büchnerpreis in 1923. He was also a physican and travelled to Africa at a time when this was not an everyday occurence.

His final resting place is not far from the school, and his and his wife’s tomb is decorated with a poem with words honouring their life and love.

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Sweet Dreams are Made of This

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“Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” 
Seneca

And sometimes all you can do is travelling with your mind.

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Nothing’s Quite the Same

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as young love.

“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! 
So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together 
that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged
in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.”
Marcel Proust

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What’s in a Name?

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“That which we call a nose by any other word would still smell.”

Excuse the pun. The original quote is, of course, from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:

“That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.”

As a transition, another rose capable of smelling:

and the real thing:

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Cruising the Edge

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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. But cruise ships are totally out of the question now. We’re never going on one of those again.” 
Eli Grober
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."
 Zora Neale Hurston: “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Travelling has for the moment been relegated to dreams for most of us. I immediately thought of this photo of a “ship” I took this January. Then I remembered a wonderful series of children’s books – The Edge Chronicles, by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, with tales of sky pirates who travel above the clouds in ships made of buoyant wood.

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I Marched Through the Vineyards

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”It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, 
when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.”
Charles Dickens

I was walking (not marching, sorry for the pun) through the vineyards a couple of days ago and it was exactly as Dickens described it. The trees are still bare, the vines haven’t started to sprout yet but the forsythia is already in bloom. The sun was out but I was glad I still wore my winter coat against the cold wind.

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