According to Buber, we engage others either as an It, forming an I-It primary word, or as a Thou, forming the I-Thou primary word.
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold pastoral!
But Bradstreet's poems were her children, as well: "Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain".
Rules are there to be broken, and She & Him have jubilantly shattered one of pop's eternal laws – the one stating that Thou Shalt Not Form a Band If Thou Art a Hollywood Star Because It Will Inevitably Suck – to smithereens.
These pronouns also had subjective and objective forms: "thou" and "thee" and "ye" and "you".
How can one walk humbly with nature's God while wreaking havoc on nature?" He says Noah was an early environmentalist, after God gave him "a commandment that might appear in modern form as, Thou shalt preserve biodiversity".
I miss thee and thou and the verb forms that went with them.
Though having a form, yet art Thou formless; though Thyself without beginning, multiform by the power of Maya, Thou art the Beginning of all, Creatrix, Protectress, and Destructress that Thou art.
The Gupta-era writer Pushpadanta in his Mahimnastava refers to this form as dehardhaghatana ("Thou and She art each the half of one body").
