Time, in Words

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I'm still on a wicked self-imposed deadline with little time to dabble in philosophy. So today, I share words about time from those who've come before with far more talent. I thought I might use them someday, weave them into a story, but it's a shame to keep them to myself:

Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight,
Make me a child again, just for tonight.
~Elizabeth Chase Akers "Rock Me to Sleep"

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
~Baltasar Gracian

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Distant Time

I know not from what distant time
thou art ever coming nearer to meet me.
Thy sun and stars can never keep thee hidden from me for aye.

In many a morning and eve thy footsteps have been heard
and thy messenger has come within my heart and called me in secret.

I know not only why today my life is all astir,
and a feeling of tremulous joy is passing through my heart.

It is as if the time were come to wind up my work,
and I feel in the air a faint smell of thy sweet presence.

~Rabindranath Tagore

7 comments on “Time, in Words”

  1. Charles...I don't look at surrealist art often because I know the artist is trying to tell me something, but I'm never sure what. This, for instance--he seems to be hoarding time, even becoming a creature of it himself. God help me if this says anything about my fascination with it. I might grow a fruit roll up tail and start scratching for fleas.

    Anyone else up for interpreting it? 🙂

    Pam and Barbara...thanks so much for the cheers. I feel a bit spent, so need all the encouragement. And, I adore you both visiting here 🙂

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