Stronger than chisels which carve out the rock,

More mighty than armies which march over land,

Beyond the voices of shame and mock,

Held in the grip of a master’s hand.

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Tool of governments and weapon of men,

Instrumental in establishment, partaker in ruin,

Distasteful yet cherished in places when,

The centre of intrigue and loyalty hewn.

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Whose ink like a river has paved out the course

For history and science throughout all time,

Channeling and flowing with persistent force,

Yet smooth and serene in each little rhyme.

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Clenched by the mightiest, grasped by the weak,

Mastered in art by only the great;

It’s wisdom and knowledge all men did seek,

And strength in the power to communicate.

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From authors of history to published accounts,

To rhymes and verses and dramas of fame,

Each day its accomplishments always surmount

In words of which not one is the same.

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So I hold it, gripped firmly in hand,

Underrated in strength and power when

The maze of my thoughts lays at its command,

My steadfast servant and friend, the pen. ”

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”Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
Daniel Handler

“A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

“I can always live by my pen.”
Jane Austen

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Beyond What’s Spoken

PEN!