Comments on: An Appreciation of Piet Hein: The Man Who Wrote 10,000 Grooks http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/ Change your beliefs, change your world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Robert http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-21523 Robert Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:10:48 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-21523 Since my late teens all my friends and colleagues tried to persuade me that I had a hidden talent for writing, and that I should develop it. I came across the following just in time, since when writing has been a spectator sport: THE COMMON WELL (To Charles Chaplin) The well you invite us to drink of is one that no drop may be bought of. You think of what all of us think of but nobody else could have thought of. Steve (Smith) - I remove my hat to you. Since my late teens all my friends and colleagues tried to persuade me that I had a hidden talent for writing, and that I should develop it. I came across the following just in time, since when writing has been a spectator sport:
THE COMMON WELL
(To Charles Chaplin)
The well you invite us to drink of
is one that no drop may be bought of.
You think of what all of us think of
but nobody else could have thought of.

Steve (Smith) – I remove my hat to you.

]]> By: Priya http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-20504 Priya Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:04:28 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-20504 Discovered PH today while trawling the blog THE WONDERING MINSTRELS ----am totally entranced ! Discovered PH today while trawling the blog THE WONDERING MINSTRELS —-am totally entranced !

]]> By: Lee Brubaker http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-12927 Lee Brubaker Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:52:05 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-12927 PROBLEMS Problems worthy of attack Prove their worth by fighting back and some not worthy of the fray seem to hang on anyway! PROBLEMS

Problems
worthy of attack
Prove their worth
by fighting back

and some
not worthy of the fray
seem to hang on
anyway!

]]> By: Piet Hein on specialization across disciplines « Entersection http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-7591 Piet Hein on specialization across disciplines « Entersection Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:03:44 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-7591 [...] section of Life, Volume 61, Number 16, October 14, 1966, p. 64. Cited by Angus Stocking in “An Appreciation of Piet Hein: The Man Who Wrote 10,000 Grooks”. Posted on behalf of Piet Hein on Friday, January 8th, 2010 (10 seconds ago) under Quotations. [...] [...] section of Life, Volume 61, Number 16, October 14, 1966, p. 64. Cited by Angus Stocking in “An Appreciation of Piet Hein: The Man Who Wrote 10,000 Grooks”. Posted on behalf of Piet Hein on Friday, January 8th, 2010 (10 seconds ago) under Quotations. [...]

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:15:37 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1529 BLIND FAITH Some say "open-minded" When they lean towards "naive" Judge the rampant optimist By what they don't believe BLIND FAITH

Some say “open-minded”
When they lean towards “naive”
Judge the rampant optimist
By what they don’t believe

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:07:36 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1528 NOTHING FURTHER If we have potential That others plainly see At what point is this distinct From our inadequacy? NOTHING FURTHER

If we have potential
That others plainly see
At what point is this distinct
From our inadequacy?

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1527 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:38:28 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1527 POINT OF NO RETURN If our writing is a special ticket And our ideas are the special train And consensus is the destination How on earth do we get home again? POINT OF NO RETURN

If our writing is a special ticket
And our ideas are the special train
And consensus is the destination
How on earth do we get home again?

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:30:23 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1526 Infants do with their first grip What God did with one fingertip. Infants do with their first grip
What God did with one fingertip.

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1525 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:17:19 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1525 DETRITUS Mankind's search for self's divined By all that it has left behind. DETRITUS

Mankind’s search for self’s divined
By all that it has left behind.

]]> By: Steve Smith http://www.otherbs.com/2009/02/16/an-appreciation-of-piet-hein-the-man-who-wrote-10000-grooks/comment-page-1/#comment-1524 Steve Smith Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:13:30 +0000 http://s59807.gridserver.com/?p=155#comment-1524 REFLECTED GLORY "The grass is always greener" Is our neighbourhood's pretense Some may fail to notice There's a mirror on their fence REFLECTED GLORY

“The grass is always greener”
Is our neighbourhood’s pretense
Some may fail to notice
There’s a mirror on their fence

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