Personified - Volume 2

A collection of classic rhymes & verse of personification; giving life, form, voice & breath to philosophical concepts & virtues.

Individual pieces include: untouched fertile Uncertainty … & how it can run you down … the barren wastelands of Frustration … & survival in the deadly valley of Fear … the landfall of Faith triggered by Love 's bravest leap … nipping & sipping the strong liquor of Hope … Worry as a merry go round … & a dinner guest who contributes nothing … the seemingly unbreakable shield of Faith … keeping tight reins on wild Hope … carving out adamantium Will … & finally trapped & captive to Pain, the greatest teacher of them all.

Five chapters with 3o poems, accompanied by allegorical art work from Odilon Redon, William Blake, Georgette Agutte, William Adams, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Maerten van Heemskerck, Leonardo da Vinci (& more).

Includes quotes from:

C. S. Lewis

Rumi

Jim Morrison

Khalil Gibran

Charles Bukowski

Joseph Campbell

J.K. Rowling

Margaret Atwood

Deepak Chopra

Oscar Munoz

Richard Paul Evans

Psalm 23:4

Jack Canfield

George R.R. Martin

Miguel de Cervantes

Hunter S. Thompson

William Shakespeare

Rosa Parks

a Japanese proverb

Robert Frost

Soren Kierkegaard

Chinese proverb

Pema Chödrön

Ruth Gendler

Richard Eberhart

Enoch Arnold Bennett

Ernest Hemingway

James Ellroy

Ephesians 6:16

George MacDonald

James Russell Lowell

Anton Chekhov

Plato

Mahatma Gandhi

Marcus Tullius

Martin Luther

George W. Bush

J.R.R. Tolkien

Madeleine L'Engle

Elbert Hubbard

Michelangelo

Robert Hillyer

Kenji Miyazawa

Matshona Dhliwayo

George Bernard Shaw

Marco Aurelio Antonino

John Lennon

Fernando Pessoa

Victor Hugo

John Green

Jackson Pearce

John Sterling

Barbara Lazear Ascher

Julius Caesar

Jim Rohn

Wm. Paul Young

Emily Dickinson

George Orwell

Raymond Reddington

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Mary Tyler Moore

Maxime Lagacé

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charlie Chaplin

Don Ingall

Woody Hayes

Rabindranath Tagore

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A.W. Tozer

Lao Tzu

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Henry Ward Beecher

John Keats

Carl Jung

Robert Gary Lee

David Richo

Frida Kahlo

Lionel Trilling

Marilyn Manson

Coretta Scott King

James Baldwin