DREAM

DREAM

 

 

What Is Dream?

What is dream, ultimately, but a testing
of darkness, a venture out into that world,
the bourne from which no traveler returns?
I heard two voices from the deep. The first,
“Is he betrayed, are night and permanence
unmoored, so that the shifting sense seems right,
and nothing stays?” The other quick to answer,
“Immense this voyage, as to the farthest star
this heading, midst the stellar silence, yet
a thousand thousand times, and still he glides
encountering nothing.” “It is well. Each dream
is but a childish step, away from all
familiarity or face. The void
that will be his eternally takes on
a pleasant guise, and seems a touch away,
almost within his grasp.” And softly said,
dear heart, how like you this? So they spoke on,
and by the dawn that broke—the even light
that came into the room—the dream dispelled,
and I was back once more amid the sound

of wakening birds and wind-beguiling trees.

 

Jared Carter’s forthcoming book of poems is A Dance in the Street, available in the fall of 2012 from Wind Publications in Kentucky. Wind published his previous collection, Cross this Bridge at a Walk, in 2006. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review, Hudson Review The Dark Horse, Prairie Schooner, and Kenyon Review. Addi­tional poems and sto­ries may be found on his web site at www.jaredcarter.com.

 

 

 

Real Strength

Real Strength

No matter how strong of a person you are, there’s always someone who can make you weak.

 

QUOTES FROM OUR FAMOUS TEACHERS

Quotes

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

  Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.

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In teaching others we teach ourselves.

 

  Proverb

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He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  Unknown Source

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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops

  Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) American historian, journalist and novelist.

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. 

 

   Socrates(BC 469-BC 399) Greek philosopher of Athens

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.  

   Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Swiss-U.S. scientist.

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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.  

  

Confucius(BC 551-BC 479) Chinese philosopher.

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

 

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. 

 

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) British politician, poet and critic.