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"A picture is worth a thousand words" is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas [1] can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a mere verbal description.
An expanded collection of the same name, with eleven additional poems, appeared in 1921. This was published in the US under the title Saturday Market. The title poem in the collection, "The Farmer's Bride", had initially appeared in The Nation in 1912. The poem is a poignant lament by an inarticulate farmer about his love for his young wife and ...
Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. [1] Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. [2] Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays. I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours. The clouds shall pass and the sun will shine on us once more.
In the past, “you didn’t know anybody who lived to 100 — they were there, but few and far between — so you’d see yourself as old at, it used to be 50, then 60, then 70, then 80,” and ...
"First They Came" (German: Als sie kamen lit. ' When they came ' , or Habe ich geschwiegen lit. ' I did not speak out ' ), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose piece by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
First published in 1791, at 228 (or 224) lines it is one of Burns' longer poems, and employs a mixture of Scots and English. The poem describes the habits of Tam (a Scots nickname for Thomas ), a farmer who often gets drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr , and his thoughtless ways, specifically towards his wife ...
A 2019 survey found that globally, we think old age begins at 66. When asked to describe it, we usually use the term wise (35%), followed by frail (32%), lonely (30%), and respected (25%). People ...
Frost composed the poem at his farm in Derry, New Hampshire; his home from 1901 to 1911 "Mending Wall" is a poem by Robert Frost.It opens Robert's second collection of poetry, North of Boston, [1] published in 1914 by David Nutt, and has become "one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in modern literature".