Showing posts with label beautiful prose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beautiful prose. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Beautiful prose

I am now planning to chronicle pieces of prose that I love and I come across. There is a grace when writers use their pen as a brush.

1)

Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’ Moving article on the plight of lonely parents.


2) Mr. Kennedy took a break to offer his views on the scrutinizing of the private lives of public officials, something with which he clearly was quite familiar. Mr. Kennedy said he had no quarrel with such inquiries.

“But do I think it tells the whole story of character? No I truly do not,” he wrote. Men and women, he said, are more complicated than that. “Some people make mistakes and try to learn from them and do better. Our sins don’t define the whole picture of who we are.”

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Stop a moment

"Take a deep breath, and let yourself imagine, just for a second, that the arc of history does, in fact, bend toward justice."

I just read this line in an article on NYTimes. Beautiful line.

Have a nice day.