Listening

Note: The original background music to this video was changed on 5th January 2009 to comply with a YouTube Copyright Claim. It was changed from the song "Your Ghost" by Kristin Hersh to "Torque" by Kristin Hersh using the YouTube Audioswap feature.

As some of the quotes in this video appear too briefly to read, here is a list of them in order of appearance:

• "Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." - Winnie the Pooh

• "If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world." - Mercedes Lackey

• "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe

• "All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that." - Baltasar Gracian

• "Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle

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Film & Animation

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• white
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• doing
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• music
• kristin
• hersh
• torque

[nordicsky]

The best part of being a poet is to look and listen; observation is everything.

I enjoyed this poem without words.

Regards, Peter

[TheRavenOfPoe]

I saw a video poem without words recently and thought how I would love to do one - without realising that perhaps I already had ;) Many thanks Peter!

[tjkoz22]

Excellent, Jennifer:)

Such a nice piece of music to use as a backdrop for your introspective imagery.

Well done!

Tom

[TheRavenOfPoe]

Thank you very much Tom! =)

[prosepp]

i like the ones you do in black and white !

And i like this song !

[TheRavenOfPoe]

Thanks Eduard! I enjoy working with black and white ^^

[popebenadict16]

um i think tuesdayweek should have got up on monday i love this

[zebidee55]

Yeah, me too, especially in the past. I used to love finding the exact words that were summing up what I was trying to say, way better than I could.

Quotes show that the human condition is universal.

[nohonor89]

To see a World in a grain of sand,

And a Heaven in a wild flower...

[Ironsouled]

If Only. Those must be the saddest words the world.

It rings a terrible truth, for all that you do, or even do NOT do will give you a chance to say if only. I only hope that others will learn this lesson at a smaller cost than I did.

[PerthPete1]

Such a simple idea, superbly produced.

How disappointing that I have only now discovered your channel, I would have so enjoyed listening to the original soundtrack.

[ferdousalamtaz]

i tried, but still miss 'your ghost'.

[blueastcoast]

One of the first videos I ever saw from you, still awesome =)

[ASAngelo]

I am thinking nothing at all and everything... ;)

[viking250972]

Very nice! Love it!!

[popebenadict16]

allways reminds of my of my daughter.

[prosepp]

sometimes life is quite interesting.

I was so surprised to get an answer to my comment, that i left it in the list. And right now, as i emptied out my comment list, it was the last one in there, so i came back to this video and watched it again.

On second view i now took it into my favourites, hope many other people will watch it. Its a lil masterpiece.

[tromba8]

oh nice baltasar gracián, a great master: