Two Line Tuesday: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

 

"Notorious RBG"
March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020

 

Fight for the things that you care about,

but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

 

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

in response to a question regarding the advice she would give young women

 

 

Two Line Tuesday: Pablo Neruda

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Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly

– Pablo Neruda, from "Sonnet XL"

Two Line Tuesday: Elizabeth Appell

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And then the day came when the risk to remain tight, 

in a bud, was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

– Elizabeth Appell

(mistakenly attributed to Anaïs Nin)

Two Line Tuesday: Edgar Allan Poe

Charles Rodstrom

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, 

we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

– Edgar Allan Poe

Two Line Tuesday: Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost . . .

Jordan Singh

do we begin to understand ourselves.

– Henry David Thoreau

from Walden (modified)

Two Line Tuesday: Irish Blessing

"Clover gleefully basks in the afternoon sun." — Evan Long

May the lilt of Irish laughter

lighten every load.

– Irish Blessing

Two Line Tuesday: Karl Groos

"Timeline: Literary Edition" by Tabatha Yeatts (click on image to enlarge)

We do not stop playing because we grow old, 

we grow old because we stop playing.

– Karl Groos 

Variously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 

Herbert Spencer, and George Bernard Shaw, but The Play of Animals by Karl Groos (1896) 

is likely the original source.

Tabatha Yeatts has challenged us to write a poem about people (or animals or inanimate objects) and a game. It could be a board game, a sport, a fictional game—any kind of game—and the narrator could be in the middle of playing it or teaching you how to play or telling how it went very wrong or the poem itself could be a game. Read Tabatha's reader spotlight HERE and add your poem to this month's padlet.

Two Line Tuesday: Vincent van Gogh

"Dandelions in spring" by Virginia (Ginny) Sanderson

It is looking at things for a long time 

that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

– Vincent van Gogh

Two Line Tuesday: Japanese Proverb

One kind word...

April Barrett

can warm three winter months.

– Japanese proverb

Two Line Tuesday: Og Mandino

"Sunset @ Gandipet" by Vijay Bandari

I will love the light for it shows me the way;

yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

– Og Mandino

from The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968)

Two Line Tuesday: Ogden Nash

Matt Dowdeswell

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,

Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

– Ogden Nash

Kate O'Neil has challenged us to write a poem with words at play: malapropisms, ambiguities, unintended meanings, puns, cliches, etc., so I thought Ogden Nash would be a good choice to get the party started! Read Kate's reader spotlight HERE and add your poem to this month's padlet.

Two Line Tuesday: Toni Morrison

Brian Wolfe

If you surrendered to the air,

you could ride it.

– Toni Morrison 

 from Song of Solomon

Two Line Tuesday: Hans Christian Andersen

  

Where words fail . . .

Jonathan Smith

music speaks.

– Hans Christian Andersen 

from "What the Moon Saw" (paraphrased)

Two Line Tuesday: Logan Pearsall Smith

Lynn Friedman

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, 

but what he whispers.

                                            – Logan Pearsall Smith

Two Line Tuesday: Margaret Fuller

"Playing School" Boston Public Library

Today a reader,

tomorrow a leader.

– Margaret Fuller

Two Line Tuesday: Rainer Maria Rilke

It is spring again.

Jay Hsu

The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Two Line Tuesday: Dr. Seuss

How did it get so late so soon? . . .

Angela Marie Henriette

My goodness how the time has flewn.

– Dr. Seuss

Two Line Tuesday: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Hope is a belief in a positive outcome..." by Vince Alongi

The right is ours. Have it, we must.

Use it, we will.

– Elizabeth Cady Stanton

from her Seneca Falls keynote address, 1848

Two Line Tuesday: Passenger

"Being There" nebojsa mladjenovic

Seems I'm talking my whole life

It's time I listen now

– Michael David Rosenberg (Passenger)

from "Keep on Walking"

Two Line Tuesday: Jack Prelutsky

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A poet is not something you become;

a poet is something you are.

– Jack Prelutsky