With a Little Love and some Tenderness

With a little love and some tenderness

We'll rise above the water, we'll rise above the mist

With a little peace and some harmony

We'll take the world together

We'll take 'em by the hand

-Hootie and the Blowfish

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=6381372

Which Colors Belong

If you feel like singing a song

And you want other people to sing along
Just sing what you feel
Don’t let anyone say it’s wrong

And if you’re trying to paint a picture
But you’re not sure which colors belong
Just paint what you see
Don’t let anyone say it’s wrong

And if you’re strung out like a kite
Or stung awake in the night
It’s alright to be frightened

There's a light

What light

-What Light, Wilco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5N1Rpxtmw4

All the Story of the Night Told Over

Theseus:

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold:

That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,

Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,

And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown,

The poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives the airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Hippolyta:

But all the story of the night told over

And all their minds transfigured so together,

More witnesseth than fancy's images,

And grows to something of great constancy

But however, strange and admirable.

-Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/full.html

Cooler than it really was

"You've sort of made up for it tonight," said Harry, "Getting the sword. Finishing the Horcrux. Saving my life."

"That makes me sound cooler than I was," Ron mumbled.

"Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was," said Harry, "I've been trying to tell you that for years."

-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, J. K. Rowling

ttp://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2010/4/18/deathly-hallows-trailer-due-soon

The Wild Free Ways of Wit and Art

Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields. No acquirement is on assignment, or even self-assignment. Knowledge of the second kind is much more available in the wild free ways of wit and art. A schoolboy may be defined as one who can tell you what he knows in the order in which he learned it. The artist must value himself as he snatches a thing from some previous order in time and space into a new order with not so much as a ligature clinging to it of the old place where it was organic.

-Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes

http://www.mrbauld.com/frostfig.html

Place to Be

When I was younger, younger than before

I never saw the truth hanging from the door

And now I'm older see it face to face

And now I'm older gotta get up clean the place

And I was green, greener than the hill

Where the flowers grew and the sun shone still

Now I'm darker than the deepest sea

Just hand me down, give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun

I thought I'd see when day is done

Now I'm weaker than the palest blue

Oh, so weak in this need for you

-Place to Be, Nick Drake

Let us go and lie in the Grass

My dear Vivian, don't coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the woods, like purple boom upon the plum. Let us go and lie on the grass and smoke cigarettes and enjoy Nature.

-Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/decay.html

No one Needs to Know we're Feeling

let this be our little secret

no one needs to know we're feeling

higher and higher and higher

higher and higher and higher

but I feel alive and I feel it in me

up and up and keep on climbing

higher and higher and higher

higher and higher and higher

-Passion Pit, Little Secrets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxL9Hod_qCY