| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'You do love me!' she whispered, assertive. And his hands stroked her
softly, as if she were a flower, without the quiver of desire, but with
delicate nearness. And still there haunted her a restless necessity to
get a grip on love.
'Say you'll always love me!' she pleaded.
'Ay!' he said, abstractedly. And she felt her questions driving him
away from her.
'Mustn't we get up?' he said at last.
'No!' she said.
But she could feel his consciousness straying, listening to the noises
outside.
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: It is the soul of sorrow that we know,
As in a shell the soul of all the sea.
So sometimes in the compass of a song,
Unknown to him who sings, thro' lips that live,
The voiceless dead of long-forgotten lands
Proclaim to us their heaviness and wrong
In sweeping sadness of the winds that give
Thy strings no rest from weariless wild hands.
To Erinna
Was Time not harsh to you, or was he kind,
O pale Erinna of the perfect lyre,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: BUCKINGHAM. What, my gracious lord?
PRINCE. An if I live until I be a man,
I'll win our ancient right in France again,
Or die a soldier as I liv'd a king.
GLOUCESTER. [Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward
spring.
Enter HASTINGS, young YORK, and the CARDINAL
BUCKINGHAM. Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of
York.
PRINCE. Richard of York, how fares our loving brother?
YORK. Well, my dread lord; so must I can you now.
Richard III |
