All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt WhitmanRead
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the deep emotional bonds and affectionate farewells between friends.
Walt Whitman's observation portrays a touching moment between two friends parting ways, illustrating the depth of their connection. The passionate embrace and kiss signify a profound emotional attachment, capturing the essence of friendship as both a source of joy and a cause of sadness during separations.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a farewell party to express the emotional bonds of friendship.
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,_x000D_ _x000D_ We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss._x000D_ _x000D_ Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;_x000D_ _x000D_ So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
Where there are friends there is wealth.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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