Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: echo

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Quoted In The Grove:
When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one ‒ before the echo returns to its source.
~Pete Dunne

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man,
Could field or grove, could any spot of earth,
Show to his eye an image of the pangs
Which it hath witnessed,‒render back an echo
Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
~William Wordsworth

All truth contains an echo of sadness.
~Charlotte Riddell

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Coleridge cried; “O God, how glorious it is to live!” Renan asks, “O God, when will it be worth while to live?” In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.
~Ouida

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Next Exercise Prompt: choice

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Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
~Zig Ziglar

It doesn’t matter whether your thoughts and feelings are good or bad, you are giving them out, and they will return to you as automatically and precisely as an echo returns the same words you send out.
~Rhonda Byrne

Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.
~Robin Sharma

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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
~Yannick Noah (tennis/singer)

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
~Lucy Maud Montgomery

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
~Giotto di Bondone

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“I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us,” Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, “and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star.” That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
~Frank Drake (astronomer)

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest ‒ if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself ‒ you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say ‘Here at last is the thing I was made for.’
~C S Lewis

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought ‒ only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
~Logan Pearsall Smith

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The more I think about myself, the more I’m persuaded that, as a person, I really don’t exist. That is one of the reasons why I can’t believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My “character” is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my “feelings” are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli.
~Christopher Isherwood

No, the secret is that there’s no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.
~Sándor Márai

He who is different from me does not impoverish me ‒ he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves ‒ in Man… For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs ‒
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music lest it should not find
An echo in another’s mind.
~John Updike

We are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood–echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of the soil (these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams, like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard).
~Mary Webb

It is hard going to the door
cut so small in the wall where
the vision which echoes loneliness
brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.
~Robert Creeley

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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.
~James A Baldwin

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
~Mohsin Hamid

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We are earth’s children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
~Alphonse de Lamartine

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
~Novalis

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I really like Adam Curtis’ ‘Century of Self.’ It’s about how artists have failed the general public by being so exclusive, like being in an echo chamber. I was definitely more like that in my early twenties ‒ my music was completely inaccessible.
~Weyes Blood

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.
~Ludovico Einaudi

I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can’t actually physically interact with, but are somehow intuitively there. Maybe you can see the ashes of that fire or the echoes of something happening on a domain not-here, whether that be coincidence, whether that be familiarity with somebody who’s a stranger.
~Mike Cahill

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He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions‒such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being‒an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.
~Elias Canetti

Be a voice not an echo.
~Albert Einstein

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“There’s not much left inside me, Max” Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.
~Nalini Singh

I am smiling at myself today
There’s no wish left in this heart
Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one
Except me.
~Rumi

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
~Dejan Stojanovic

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It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.
~Bruce R McConkie

Froi heard Zabat’s voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot’s voice.
~Melina Marchetta

To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.
~Gordon Clark

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All this is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren’t challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don’t see the counterarguments.
~Edward Snowden

One is to get out of our echo chambers and sort of follow up people on Twitter and Facebook who do not agree with you. Make sure that you have friends disagree with you profoundly…
~Tucker Carlson

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
~Thomas Carlyle

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What we do now echoes in eternity.
~Marcus Aurelius

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
~C S LEWIS

No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.
~Geoffrey Wood

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Posted From The Grove

Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.
~Neil Gaiman

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When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven’t learned from the past. We still don’t see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.
~Immortal Technique

Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man’s hunting ground.
~Frank Nugent

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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed — not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills.
~Stephen King

The wars don’t end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I’m gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.
~Tim O’Brien

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
~Otto von Bismarck

The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry ‒ some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The “terrorism war”, like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda ‒ the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.
~William Greider

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the feared.
~William Shakespeare

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The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.
~Glenn Greenwald

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People nowadays talk about issues as if they’re reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they’re the experts of everything.
~Suzy Kassem

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
~Nicolas Gomez Davila

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
~William Hazlitt

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
~Robert Ardrey

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
~Bill Delahunt

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Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
~Herbert Spencer

We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.
~Kent Nerburn

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply criticized negotiations with Iran, calling them a ‘historic’ mistake that contributes to making the world a ‘more dangerous place.’ This sentiment is strongly supported by his allies in Washington.
~Stephen Kinzer

“Peace. That’s what salaam means. Peace unto you.” The words brought forth an echo from Ender’s memory. His mother’s voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. … The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can’t tear him out.
~Orson Scott Card

I came to the place of my birth and cried: “The friends of my youth, where are they?”–and an echo answered, “Where are they?
~Samuel Rogers

MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.
~Richard Holbrooke

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Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.
~R W Apple

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
~Woodrow Wilson

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Yes there’s a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe.
And there’s a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
~Aaron Tippin

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No history much? Perhaps.
Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:
A village like an instinct left to rust,
Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
~Lawrence Durrell

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn’t believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, ‘We want peace. We want peace.’
~Jarreth J Merz

For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it’s not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.
~James Brady

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Leftists’ meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
~Dennis Prager

The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and… media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.
~David Brock

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The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.
~Louis Simpson

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words “justice,” “compassion,” “society,” “struggle,” “evil,” would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
~P D James

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By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.
~James Joyce

A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed.
~Faith Salie

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After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
~Stephen King

When Manuel Valls says there’s nothing to understand because “understanding is justifying,” he echoes back…
~Tariq Ramadan

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
~Dajan Stojanovic

I will offer a choice, not an echo.
~Barry Goldwater

To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.
~Tomi Lahren

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If power was a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.
~Salman Rushdie

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
~Daniel J Boorstin

Facebook is primarily a mechanism for bonding, not bridging. Studies show that in the vast majority of cases, people live in self-made echo chambers on Facebook that reinforce their existing views of the world.
~Asha Rangappa

Instagram influencers project a specific, highly crafted image of perfection ‒ one that is largely white, thin, and psychologically Zen. Critics argue that this boom, in turn, has helped fuel excessive self-promotion in which we post about only the good moments rather than reality ‒ essentially, a distorted echo chamber.
~Mary Pilon

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too … Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
~Ayn Rand

In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked.
~Richard Salter Storrs

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Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,
They remember it again ‒
Echo still the joyful sound
“Peace on earth, good-will to men!”
~Lewis Carroll

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~Luis Martinez: Echo (1:52) a duo’s dance

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~TED-Ed: The myth of Narcissus and Echo • Iseult Gillespie (4:56) animated, the intertwined story, with elegance, crisply told

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~Raconteur – Mythology & History: The Thin Line Between Love and Obsession – Echo and Narcissus (8:00) a more detailed telling

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~Pseudostage: The Silent Echo • To Mountain (2:22) Nepalese child sings to the wind

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Money is an echo of value.
~Bob Burg

Money talks — but credit has an echo.
~Bob Thaves

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If you write about a process you’re about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn’t echo what you’ve written about, you’ve failed.
~James L Brooks

Content isn’t just a brand or message that you develop yourself and then throw out into the echo chamber. It’s a mirror.
~Eugene Lee Yang

Don’t be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you’re just a reflection.
~Hugh Nibley

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Stars are echoes of the past. It’s important to look to them for guidance, but as long as people reach for them, they never realize the beauty and potential awaiting just in front of them.
~Emory R Frie

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
~Og Mandino

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
~Victor Hugo

I’m trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there’s an echo to a much larger reality.
~Robert Lepage

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.
~Margaret Atwood

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What is Freedom? ye can tell
That which slavery is, too well
For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was born in the late ’70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people’s public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.
~Nate Powell

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.
~William J Brennan

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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
~Winston Churchill

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.
~Eric Hoffer

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles “in advance” a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port-Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.
~Michel Foucault

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No history much? Perhaps.
Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:
A village like an instinct left to rust,
Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
~Lawrence Durrell

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.
~Gustave Le Bon

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
~Charles Angoff

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

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Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
~Henry Anatole Grunwald

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
~Renata Adler (the New Yorker/Pauline Kael fued)

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way ‒ in an echo of some of Shakespeare’s plays ‒ the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
~Mal Peet

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.
~Jhumpa Lahiri

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When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls to the original keepers of liberty: the American people.
~Dana Loesch

I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.
~Ben Hecht (screen/playwright, journalist)

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Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be filled. It’s this capacity for emptiness and not just fullness that offers possibilities yet to be explored. Kurosawa has magnificently exploited this dimension in Dreams: sometimes the sonic universe is reduced to a single point‒the sound of the rain, an echo that disappears, a simple voice.
~Michel Chion

The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent’s Google search run amok.
~Richard Corliss

‘Basic Instinct 2‘ is an uneasy experience because, although it is hyper-reflexive to the point where it is hard to think of one character, one scene, one plot twist that isn’t a reference or an echo, there is nothing knowing about it. No matter how absurd the film gets, it refuses to raise its eyebrows.
~Mark Fisher

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The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they’re shot is very simple and the same.
~Jim Jarmusch

As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to find investors who are real. I think most independent filmmakers would echo that sentiment.
~Harrison Smith

At school, I’d sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn’t know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I’d hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.
~Frankie Valli

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade ‒ they didn’t particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test…
~Cass Sunstein

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
~Jill Clayburgh

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In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.
~Walter J Phillips

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.
~Robert Henri

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.
~Daniel Levitin

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
~Walter Darby Bannard

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness… It’s so bloody hard to paint.
~Leland Bell

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An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That’s why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It’s as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.
~Adam Fuss

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It’s a trace.
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

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The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
~Vera Wang

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior ‒ a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess.
~Suzy Menkes

Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
~Suzy Menkes

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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
~Anna Brownell Jameson

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
~Thomas Fuller

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Friendship Never explain — your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~Eric Hoffer

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy–that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
~Mark Twain

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I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
~Michel Foucault

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
~Julio Cortazar

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
~Julia McNair Wright

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Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
~George Santayana

So in the heart,
When, fading slowly down the past,
Fond memories depart,
And each that leaves it seems the last;
Long after all the rest are flown,
Returns a solitary tone,
The after-echo of departed years,
And touches all the soul to tears.
~Henry Van Dyke

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~Echo Torch: (20:21) a light revealing more than a light should

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~The CGBros: Victor Perez • Echo (10:16) the treachery of mirror

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~The CGBros: The Echo Team • Echo (5:13) from a French legend

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~Omeleto: Cheap Hugs (15:10) grief, and the echoes of memory… be prepared for tears

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Surfing is sensual. It’s a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It’s an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.
~Tim Winton

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I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.
~Henri Barbusse

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.
~Charles Dickens

And I saw it didn’t matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds–nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.
~Dorianne Laux

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The echo is a gift, passed on to us by our ancestors many ages ago, to remind us of ourselves. To confirm our existence. To remedy our loneliness. Though we must be still in order to hear it.
~Thomas Lloyd Qualls

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Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.
~Paul Valery

Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.
~Ingmar Bergman

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
~Adam Duritz

When you hear the echoes of my mind, you’ll know that I wasn’t listening to what you said.
~Anthony T Hincks

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Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.
~Jane Goodall

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles
~Chinese Proverb

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa

As the call, so the echo.
~Proverb

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There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
~Beryl Markham

Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking’s a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That’s a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.
~Denise Levertov

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous “echo” to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.
~Alan Watts

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
~C S Lewis

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Here the sun shineth
Most shadily;
Here is heard an echo
Of the far sea,
Though far off it be.
~Christina Rossetti

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§ MUSIC:

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature…Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
~Kate Mosse

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
~Max Heindel

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
~Daisaku Ikeda

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Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir–I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
~George Eliot

The songs in ‘Wonderland‘ don’t have a melodic life for me ‒ I’m not a musical person ‒ but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.
~Stacey D’Erasmo

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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
~Barbra Streisand

Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We’d also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we’d stand in the little heated lobby in the project’s administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.
~Frankie Valli

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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
~Eric Clapton

Weirdly enough, if I’m having trouble with a guitar part ‒ not the playing of it but the writing ‒ I’ll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I’ve found so many guitar parts from echo. It’s limitless.
~The Edge

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Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
~Alan Parsons

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
~A Kool Moe Dee

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Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it ‒ just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don’t.
~Oneohtrix Point

Actually, all we’re trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
~Chico Hamilton

Any sound. Record it and then change it’s nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It’s a sort of modern magic. We think there’s something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.
~Daphne Oram

Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It’s inspired so many people and so much music ‒ in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there’s a little bit of a romantic thing there.
~Mike D

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time…turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
~David Toop

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I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.
~Florian Schneider

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I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the oiginal strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after…
~Henry David Thoreau

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
~Bobby Vinton

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On one level, we’re on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they’ll be an echo in the mic. It’s like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.
~Kurt Vile (The Violators)

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When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound ‒ Joy Division’s ‘Closer,’ or Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Heaven Up Here‘… I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.
~Moby

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.
~Taylor Swift

Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,
Play all the comfort o’er again.
~Joseph Addison

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start,
when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
~Eliza Cook

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I opened the doors of my heart.
And behold,
There was music within and a song,
And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long.
I opened the doors of my heart. And behold,
There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes:
Then was heard, as a far-away bell at long intervals tolled.
~Jean Ingelow

This is the first thing I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
~Philip Larkin

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood…
~Henry David Thoreau

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.
~Charles de Lint

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If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
~Brian Eno

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
~Thomas Carlyle

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Echo & the Bunnymen just copied ‘People Are Strange,’ which is cool, we made some money, thanks. But when an artist finds a new interpretation of one of your songs, that’s great. It turns your head around.
~John Densmore

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.
~Ludovico Einaudi

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Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.
~Anais Nin

What you have to understand is that blues… it’s in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you’re playing it like it’s an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
~Taj Mahal

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing ‘ancient tones’ into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.
~Paul Zollo

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From it’s inception Beat poetry was hailed as “something NEW” and “like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected ‒ by hip people who listen.” But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.
~Allen Ginsberg

Mozart’s music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.
~E T A Hoffmann

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In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I’d sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too ‒ singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.
~Ben E King

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
~James Mercer

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I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.
~Anna Journey

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashion the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.
~J R R Tolkien

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I can’t see my reflection in the waters,
I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain.
I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps,
or can’t remember the sound of my own name.
~Bob Dylan (Tomorrow Is A Long Time)

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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~Cristina G Zarzosa: Echo (2:43) song born of being ignored

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~Helsinki Films: Nelou • Echo (3:46) family, friends, memories resolving

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~enyatv: Enya • Echoes In Rain (2:58) ethereal Enya

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~Seimo Records: Into Echo • Remember Me (3:38) heavy lyrics, jittery graphics

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~Linkin Park: Lost In The Echo (3:49) with a ghostly premise

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~Jackson Dean: Fearless / The Echo (3:41) fearless, but for one thing

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~Echo & The Bunnymen: The Killing Moon (4:54) a song from back when

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~Natalia Echo: I Lost Myself (3:24) audio/lyrics, confessional

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~Chelsea Wolfe: Whispers In The Echo Chamber (4:16) weird, in a word

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~Elevation Worship: Tauren Wells • Echo (3:48) religious, infectious

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~Cole Rolland: Echo (3:24) rock ‘n roll in a sand storm

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~Olivia Dean: Echo (3:19) understated, nicely orchestrated

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What do you think love is ‒ a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.
~Patricia A McKillip

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.
~Ann Aguirre

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“You don’t have to echo my feelings, Mencheres, but you can’t talk me out of them either. I love you.” Her smile was wry. “Deal with it.”
~Jeaniene Frost

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
~Adelaide Anne Procter (Victorian poet)

And we’d sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis’ voice dying away
~William Faulkner

The old echoes are long in dying.
~Charles Henry Parkhurst

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I think she is going to find you too old… Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.
~Michel Houellebecq

I count no more my wasted tears;
They left no echo of their fall;
I mourn no more my lonesome years;
This blessed hour atones for all.
I fear not all that Time or Fate
May bring to burden heart or brow,-
Strong in the love that came so late,
Our souls shall keep it always now!
~Elizabeth Chase Allen

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‘And my desire,’ he said, ‘is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.’
~Lady Gregory (Irish dramatist)

I think the hardest person to love is yourself
I mean-
You carry your flaws like burdens
And you feel them on your skin
The words you shouldn’t have said
Still echo in your head
So you keep quiet
Your mistakes, like monsters
They haunt you
And you put them to sleep every night
The words you should’ve said
Still echo in your head
I bet you’d give yourself a chance
If you were someone else instead
~Yara

I am smiling at myself today
There’s no wish left in this heart
Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one Except me.
~Rumi

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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty’
~Andrea Gibson

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.
~Plato

When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.
~Rumi

She marking them begins a wailing note
And sings extemporally a woeful ditty
How love makes young men thrall and old men dote
How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty
Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe,
And still the choir of echoes answer so.
~William Shakespeare

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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.
~Felix Adler

A thinking partner who isn’t an echo chamber… How many of us dare to have such collaborators?
~Margaret Heffernan

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.
~Jacob Bronowski

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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
~Rowan Williams

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far,
The voice divine of human loyalty.
~George Eliot

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…the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.
~Maggie Stiefvater

The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is ‒ maybe this should come first ‒ to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.
~Michael Franti

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When I write this in bed, I can almost hear the echo of the wind over the sand, or the groans of wooden panels around me. I can almost smell the dustiness of the camel, taste the bitterness of saltbush. And when I dream, your warm hands cover my shoulders. Your whispers carry stories and sound like the rustle of spinifex. I still wear that ring, you know… at night, when no one is watching.
~Lucy Christopher

In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
~Isaac Marion

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“I’ll just be your brother from now on.” he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. “That’s what you wanted, isn’t it?” It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. “Yes,” she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. “That’s what I wanted.”
~Cassandra Clare

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Footfalls echo in the memory,
down the passage we did not take,
towards the door we never opened,
into the rose garden.
~T S Eliot

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I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago ‒ but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man’s child. She could fade and wither ‒ I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.
~Vladimir Nabokov

He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.
~Milan Kundera

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That’s how I hold your voice.
~Rumi

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Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.
~John Frederick Boyes

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No, no, don’t let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.
~Rachilde (decadent literature movement)

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.
~George MacDonald

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I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance’s first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other… you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.
~Charles de Lint

Perhaps the echoes of people we once loved still linger in the places we frequented with them and that is why we go back… Not so much to remember them as to feel them…
~Ranata Suzuki

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
~Mark Z Danielewski

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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
~William Shakespeare

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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There is no love that is not an echo.
~Theodor W Adorno

Only echoes answer me.
~Anton Chekhov

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When the truths of love are planted firm,
they won’t be hard to find.
And words of love I speak to you
will echo in your mind.
~Stevie Wonder (I Believe…)

Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth.
~Tom Robbins

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My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they’re really good.
~Liberty Ross

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
~Peter Ackroyd

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When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.
~Diana Gabaldon

I think I’ve indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I’ve traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.
~Guy Maddin

I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.
~Lysa TerKeurst

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The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which‒at their best‒we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families
~Dallin H Oaks

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other’s chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other’s children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother’s voice.
~Margaret Mead

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.
~Neal A Maxwell

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As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher, and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.
~Gunter Brus (provocative artist, Belgian)

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
~Danilo Kis

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Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child’s mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.
~Beverly Engel

Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother’s rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn’t rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.
~Antonella Gambotto-Burke

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
~C J Sansom

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.
~Michael Ondaatje

But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up.
~James A Owen

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Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.
~Marlena De Blasi

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.
~Kent Nerburn

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It’s disturbing at my age to look at a young woman’s destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one’s own destructiveness in youth.
~Helen Garner

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that’s what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.
~Stephen Marche

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.
~Francis Alexander Durivage

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Beginning the new year with a first issue reprint, circumstances dictate

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Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.
~H P Lovecraft

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
~Henri Bergson

The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don’t enjoy the echo. I’m no sell out. Literally.
~Andy Kindler

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
~Fred Allen

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I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won’t give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
~William Congreve

I asked of Echo ‘t other day
(Whose words are few and often funny),
What to a novice she could say
Of courtship, love, and matrimony.
Quoth Echo, plainly, “Matter-o’-money.
~John Godfrey Saxe

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It’s important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I’m concerned, but we all leave an echo. It’s important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we’re gone.
~Alex Gaskarth

The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we’re gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.
~Alice McDermott

Till the Future dares
Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity!
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

The melancholy ghosts of dead renown,
Whispering faint echoes of the world’s applause.
~Edward Young

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I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death;
the echo I created outlasted my last breath.
~Fiona Apple (Container)

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Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
~Virginia Woolf

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.
~Richard Selzer

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.
~Diana Gabaldon

The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.
~Morgan Llywelyn

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The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
~Kate Mosse

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud‒and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.
~Lauren Oliver

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.
~Hisham Matar

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What I know about living is the pain is never just ours
Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo
So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window
When I can see what I couldn’t see before,
through the glass of my most battered dream,
I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did,
it scattered a thousand seeds.
So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in
just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better
~Andrea Gibson

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Sheet Metal Echoes

© David Lorenz Winston

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A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
~Mason Cooley

Art is a delayed echo.
~George Santayana

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh;
a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.
~Sean O’Casey

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
~Norman Douglas

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
~Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
~Czeslaw Milosz

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
~Janet Fitch

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
~Ambrose Bierce

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
~Emil Cioran

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

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“That fiend!” Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana’s bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter [Pan] names.
~James M Barrie

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My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.
~Tyga

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When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer’s imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must “hesitate”, we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.
~Russell Sherman

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There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization ‒ “dustsceawung,” meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or “wyrd.”
~Peter Ackroyd

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Everybody’s talkin’ about me, I don’t hear a word they’re saying, only echoes on my mind.
~Harry Nilsson (Everybody’s Talkin‘)

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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It’s all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It’s just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls stones, echoes of unknown voices ‒ a collective mishmash of life.
~Fernando Pessoa

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The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.
~Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
~Henry David Thoreau

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If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy
~Milan Kundera

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The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.
~George Orwell

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Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
~Karl Barth

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No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
~William George Jordan

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A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.
~Larry Crabb

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I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there’s reverberations, consequences. That’s what I’m interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.
~Derek Cianfrance

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Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.
~Gutzon Borglum

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Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.
~Amit Ray

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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
~Aimee Bender (author)

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From a distance the world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.
From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace,
it’s the voice of every man
~Bette Midler (From A Distance)

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If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
~Bruce Lee

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We are the echo of the future.
~W S Merwin

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Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word ‘pravda’? …Doesn’t that just echo down the canyons of your soul?
~Julian Barnes (pravda: truth/justice)

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I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I’m just kind of preaching to the choir.
~Weyes Blood

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In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there’s a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
~Alan Moore

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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
~Jacques Derrida (Fr philosopher)

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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: “Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?” And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
~Jack Kerouac

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If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world’s essential, joyful muddle.
~Alberto Manguel

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Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time –affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
~Dean Koontz

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Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.
~Julian Jaynes

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. “I conclude that all is well,” says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
~Albert Camus

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
~Albert Camus

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I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with its hard edges and harsh light did not have enough resonance to echo the demands I made upon experience. It was as if I never experienced experience as experience. Living never lived up to the expectations I had of it–the Bovary syndrome.
~Angela Carter

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.
~Wallis Simpson (royal consort)

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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. In a man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence‒ the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.
~Robert Hughes

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One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer’s physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
~Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm’s length.
~George Santayana

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@Writers Platform:

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.
~James Gleick

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.
~Albert Pike

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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
~Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931)

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking… I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
~Maurice Blanchot (1907 – 2003)

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A word into the silence thrown
always finds its echo somewhere
where silence opens hidden lexicons.
~Dejan Stojanovic

Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence.
~W S Merwin

Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . . And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And more than echoes talk along the walls.
~Alexander Pope

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Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations — naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today — that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.
~Virginia Woolf

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.
~Knut Hamsun

Translation is at best an echo.
~George Borrow

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Hemingway’s minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn’t realize they were supposed to have imagined.
~Madison Smartt Bell

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of ‘Once upon a time’ shapes all the fiction I’ve ever written.
~Justine Larbalestier

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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
~Bob Seger

That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Don’t try to write anything you can’t feel ‒ it will be a failure ‒’echoes nothing worth’
~Lucy Maud Montgomery

It’s too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist’s voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
~Greg Iles

Music’s always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can’t create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music’s mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I’m writing, but it’s also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.
~Charles de Lint

Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what’s been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul [protective membrane], in fact, around the reader.
~Teju Cole

Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don’t know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like “no/know” and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I’d like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn’t that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I’d have said: not me, never. And now I done it.
~Gregory Orr

There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse.
~Mark Ravenhill

The cry that ‘fantasy is escapist’ compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are ‘escapist’ compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.
~Tom Shippey

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Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don’t they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account.
~Dan Wakefield

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, ‘Getting Closer,’ is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of ‘The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,’ a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.
~Steven Millhauser

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On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time’s forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.
~A Curtiss

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that… the reader is left with an echo of: ‘How much of this was from me?’
~Mohsin Hamid

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
~Henry David Thoreau

Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
~Don Marquis (1935 – 2022)

You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you’ll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is‒if it has any. Everything needs a context. You’re not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 -2021)

I used to write as an escape. There’s no escape. There’s just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
~Laird Barron

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With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.
~Alice Meynell

The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will… and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is how I understand literature ‒ as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What’s going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.
~Tommy McCarthy

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Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.
~Louise Glück

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
~Wallace Stevens

The poetic image is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
~Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
~Carl Sandburg

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If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
~Brad Leithauser

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,–those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Prewritten Prompt: echo

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Everything seems an echo of something else.
~Robert Penn Warren

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can’t be articulated. Only caricatured.
~Dave Eggers

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Imagine, he said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.
~Caleb Carr

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel’s ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.
~Kenny Smith

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Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
~John Piper

But what does it mean to be on God’s side? …It echoes a very basic tenet of Christianity and other faiths ‒ love your neighbor as yourself ‒ still the most transformational ethic in history.
~Jim Wallis

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Joy is the echo of God’s life within us.
~Columba Marmion

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud.
We in ourselves rejoice!
And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,
all melodies the echoes of that voice,
all colours a suffusion from that light.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.
~Henry David Thoreau

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
~Asa Gray

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Most Christian ‘believers’ tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
~Richard Rohr

All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.
~John Piper

Perhaps an all-powerful, self-sufficient, and original God, is less in need of our bowing, scraping, self-abasing worship, than he is interested in our performance as an actor, on his stage, under his direction. We have the script. The instructions has been given us. All we need do is echo his direction in our actions.
~author unknown

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I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides,
~Saint Augustine

If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God’s, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
~John Stott

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In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.
~Richard Wurmbrand

Like an echo from a ruined castle, prayer is an echo from the ruined human soul of the sweet promise of God.
~William Arnot

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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good ‒ the atavism of an old ideal.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
~Shusaku Endo

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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.
~Swami Vivekananda

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming ‒ the echo of God on the human wall!
~Victor Hugo

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[St. Francis] looked upon creation with the eyes of one who could recognize in it the marvelous work of the hand of God. His solicitous care, not only towards men, but also towards animals is a faithful echo of the love with which God in the beginning pronounced his ‘fiat’ which brought them into existence. We too are called to a similar attitude.
~Pope John Paul II

I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it — let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes ‒ many times ‒ my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens ‒ and it happens every day in some measure ‒ I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.
~John Piper

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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
~Henry Ward Beecher

If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him… the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
~John Piper

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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.
~Max Nordau

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.
~Guillermo del Toro

Getting kicked out of the Garden was the beginning of school. The knowledge of good and evil needed to be lived to be learned. The scope of mankind portrayed in the Bible is but an echo of the globe and the music we have made.
~author unknown

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
~Rumi

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Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.
~Miroslav Volf

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I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to “see” things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.
~Robert Hanbury Brown (1916 – 2002)

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
~Gene Wolfe

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Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
~Roger Lewin

In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the ‘science is settled’ camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.
~Colin Robinson

Technology has allowed the creation of media echo chambers, so that a person can reinforce, rather than debate, viewpoints.
~Richard Edelman

The difference between an echo chamber and a filter bubble in my mind is an echo chamber you choose to in with likeminded people, a filter bubble chooses you and you don’t really see it.
~Edward Greenspon

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The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.
~Marshall McLuhan

The Internet creates more space for extremism, and the echo chamber effect accelerates the process.
~Brian Stelter

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to calm down enough to listen.
~Naomi Wolf

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Videogames are indeed design: They’re sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
~John Maeda

If you have an architecture of control, let’s say, where you select in advance everything that’s going to affect your life, then you’re going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature… Pandora [music platform], which I love, actually feeds into that.
~Cass Sunstein

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.
~Ray Bradbury

Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet.
~Richelle E Goodrich

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There is a place where time stands still …illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
~Alan Lightman

If you live to be 100 years old, what you’ve done here for the last two days, weeks, months, what you’ve done here will echo in eternity.
~Jay Paterno (son of coach, Joe)

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Gone! gone forever!‒like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being‒and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo.
~George D Prentice

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
~Alexander Smith

Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow‒she was, in this moment, wiped clean.
~J R Ward

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The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.
~Roland Merullo

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
~Guy Finley

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
~Guy Finley

The great eventful Present hides the Past;
but through the din
Of its loud life hints and echoes
from the life behind steal in.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

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And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
John Wyndham

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§ The Exercise:

dear heart

if mirrors echo light
as echoes mirror sound
that feeling full of empty
love engraved on hollow ground
that wish to undo a wish
was wanting you around

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class: less wars

echo events
status: intense
parallel people
of perilous intent
ignoring history
refuse to relent
remembered tomorrow
as evil and bent
but new lines get drawn
historical, as meant

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5s ‘n 7s

echoing role oxygen
greens clinging to rocks, brown earth
living climbing rising things
brash exuberance extant
with harvestings, vultures too

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rememb’rings incriminate
echoes don’t discriminate
brandishing new blandishments
history as memory
weird, how now and then relate

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indescribable echo
born undecipherable
old love that was lovelier
turned mean and irascible
still tempting, available

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silver, second’s ornament
award worthy adornment
still echo golden moments
recognize true achievement
warriors, champion born

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burgeoning restaurant chain
echo menus all the same
secret sauce ingredient
essential oil: mistletoe
christmas kiss, the place to go

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anonymous lost to fame
synonymous, lose the game
promise lost to echo’s helm
and most, inconceivably
there be loses overwhelm

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censorship in vogue
needs a wall to block
looks to pen the pen
wicked world of words
as captured in books
voices want echoes
walls but bounce them back

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serendipity
fated happenstance
infatuation
improbable love
crescendos echo
flowers and candy
cupid’s failed crusade

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beauty of the eyes
curves in humor, of body
echo in the loins
smart, please, but give me kindness
this first, over all the rest

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the echo seasons return
old sterling plaudits well-earned
balding, not bold, a concern
reworked plot twistings get spurned
thrice-burned lesson twice learned

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love says: give to get
spending habits, profligate
soon they echo debt
venders’ tender monied belt
this then, when the pinch is felt

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frustrations echo
pre-boil to parboil
stove-top emotions
add ire to the fire
then the commotion

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whole bread over white
black coffee for added bite
brown rice healthy twice
odd meals and exotic spice
it’s a full life done up right

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don’t get argument but you don’t get results.
~Robert A Heinlein

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare’s definition of “echo,”–babbling gossips of the air.
~Josh Billings

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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That’s why they are called Echo People.
~Robert Bly

I’ve noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That’s because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

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When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.
~Henry David Thoreau

I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don’t know how to figure out what they mean. I can’t tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.
~Laurie Halse Anderson

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This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture ‒ and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.
~Werner Herzog

Art for art’s sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
~E M Forster

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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
~Joseph Joubert

A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.
~Charles Robert Maturin

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Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales ‒ because they find them romantic…This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap.
~Vincent Van Gogh

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Man … has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean’s roar.
~Horace Mann

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.
~Jeffrey McDaniel

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We’ve lost control of this planet somewhere. There’s an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you’re powerless facing those phenomena.
~Francis Alys

If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud you again.
~William Shakespeare

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I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.
~Virginia Woolf

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
~Naomi Wolf

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O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

What would it profit thee to be the first
Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,
A thing that answers, but hath not a thought
As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
~Frederick Tennyson (brother to Alfred Lord Tennyson)

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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
~Jonathan Swift

Echoes are more noisy than the source.
~Toba Beta

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All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper’s brain, and he is with them, and part of them.
~Daphne du Maurier

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
~Colleen McCullough

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Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
~Carl Sandburg

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
~E M Forster

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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
~George William Curtis

The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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Julie looks at me like she’s waiting for more, and I wonder if I’ve expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning in ellipses.
~Isaac Marion

“What in the world are you thinking?” She sounded pretty flustered. “I try not to think,” Leo admitted. “It interferes with being nuts… Echo, you ready?”
~Rick Riordan

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
~Honore de Balzac

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
~Charles M Schulz

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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian…
~Derek Walcott

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.
~Rebecca Solnit

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I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums… All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me… Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.
~Jack London (The Star Rover)

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
~George Eliot

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He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom’s words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.
~Jonathan Maberry (of the living dead)

It has nothing to do with age, it’s not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It’s a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego’s shell. True life can’t ever start, until we offer up our heart.
~Dawud Wharnsby Ali

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When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
~John G Shedd

Every something is an echo of nothing
~John Cage (either computer scientist, or art historian)

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~Richard Wright

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
~Ray Bradbury

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