Personified - Volume 2

A collection of classic rhymes & verse of personification; giving life, form, voice & breath to philosophical concepts & virtues.Individual pieces include: untouched fertile Uncertainty … & how it can run you down … the barren wastelands of Frustration … & survival in the deadly valley of Fear … the landfall of Faith triggered by Love 's bravest leap … nipping & sipping the strong liquor of Hope … Worry as a merry go round … & a dinner guest who contributes nothing … the seemingly unbreakable shield of Faith … keeping tight reins on wild Hope … carving out adamantium Will … & finally trapped & captive to Pain, the greatest teacher of them all.Five chapters with 3o poems, accompanied by allegorical art work from Odilon Redon, William Blake, Georgette Agutte, William Adams, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Maerten van Heemskerck, Leonardo da Vinci (& more). Includes quotes from:C. S. LewisRumiJim MorrisonKhalil GibranCharles BukowskiJoseph CampbellJ.K. RowlingMargaret AtwoodDeepak ChopraOscar MunozRichard Paul EvansPsalm 23:4Jack CanfieldGeorge R.R. MartinMiguel de CervantesHunter S. ThompsonWilliam ShakespeareRosa Parksa Japanese proverbRobert FrostSoren KierkegaardChinese proverbPema ChödrönRuth GendlerRichard EberhartEnoch Arnold BennettErnest HemingwayJames EllroyEphesians 6:16George MacDonaldJames Russell LowellAnton ChekhovPlatoMahatma GandhiMarcus TulliusMartin LutherGeorge W. BushJ.R.R. TolkienMadeleine L'EngleElbert HubbardMichelangeloRobert HillyerKenji MiyazawaMatshona DhliwayoGeorge Bernard ShawMarco Aurelio AntoninoJohn LennonFernando PessoaVictor HugoJohn GreenJackson PearceJohn SterlingBarbara Lazear AscherJulius CaesarJim RohnWm. Paul YoungEmily DickinsonGeorge OrwellRaymond ReddingtonMarie von Ebner-EschenbachMary Tyler MooreMaxime LagacéAntoine de Saint-ExuperyCharlie ChaplinDon IngallWoody HayesRabindranath TagoreArnold SchwarzeneggerA.W. TozerLao TzuPercy Bysshe ShelleyHenry Ward BeecherJohn KeatsCarl JungRobert Gary LeeDavid RichoFrida KahloLionel TrillingMarilyn MansonCoretta Scott KingJames Baldwin