1/26/2009
Quote of the moment...
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world. "
1/20/2009
Quote of the moment...
...and a tribute to my adiction:
"Blacker then a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself.. That is coffee."
Godot
"Blacker then a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself.. That is coffee."
Godot
1/16/2009
Quote of the moment...
"In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women. "
1/14/2009
Quote of the moment...
"...when God provides a beautiful woman, the devil at once retorts with a fool to keep her."
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
1/13/2009
People are...
...egoistic, nice, beloved, arrogant, cooperative, horrible, generous, passionate, cruel, sacrificially, benevolent,selfabsorbet, adorable, understanding, gentle, gratefull...
WE are...
...the mighty and the fallen
...angels and demons
...heaven and hell
...able to be everything: marble statue or scaffold.
WE are...
...the mighty and the fallen
...angels and demons
...heaven and hell
...able to be everything: marble statue or scaffold.
1/08/2009
Just one of my favorites...
Part of the Power that would
Always wish Evil, and always works the Good.
I am the spirit, ever, that denies!
And rightly so: since everything created,
In turn deserves to be annihilated:
Better if nothing came to be.
So all that you call Sin, you see,
Destruction, in short, what you’ve meant
By Evil is my true element.
I’m speaking the truth to you, and modestly.
Even if Man’s accustomed to take
His small world for the Whole, that’s his mistake:
I’m part of the part, that once was - everything,
Part of the darkness, from which Light, issuing,
Proud Light, emergent, disputed the highest place
With its mother Night, the bounds of Space,
And yet won nothing, however hard it tried,
Still stuck to Bodily Things, and so denied.
It flows from bodies, which it beautifies,
And bodies block its way:
I hope the day’s not far away
When it, along with all these bodies, dies.
And frankly it’s a sorry tale.
What’s set against the Nothingness,
The Something, World’s clumsiness,
Despite everything I’ve tried,
Won’t become a nothing: though I’d
Storms, quakes, and fires on every hand,
It deigned to stay as sea and land!
And those Men and creatures, all the damned,
It’s no use my owning any of that crew:
How many I’ve already done with too!
Yet new fresh blood is always going round.
So it goes on, men make me furious!
With water, earth and air, of course,
A thousand buds unfurl
In wet and dry, warm and cold!
And if I hadn’t kept back fire of old,
I’d have nothing left at all.
from: "Faust" Part I, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always wish Evil, and always works the Good.
I am the spirit, ever, that denies!
And rightly so: since everything created,
In turn deserves to be annihilated:
Better if nothing came to be.
So all that you call Sin, you see,
Destruction, in short, what you’ve meant
By Evil is my true element.
I’m speaking the truth to you, and modestly.
Even if Man’s accustomed to take
His small world for the Whole, that’s his mistake:
I’m part of the part, that once was - everything,
Part of the darkness, from which Light, issuing,
Proud Light, emergent, disputed the highest place
With its mother Night, the bounds of Space,
And yet won nothing, however hard it tried,
Still stuck to Bodily Things, and so denied.
It flows from bodies, which it beautifies,
And bodies block its way:
I hope the day’s not far away
When it, along with all these bodies, dies.
And frankly it’s a sorry tale.
What’s set against the Nothingness,
The Something, World’s clumsiness,
Despite everything I’ve tried,
Won’t become a nothing: though I’d
Storms, quakes, and fires on every hand,
It deigned to stay as sea and land!
And those Men and creatures, all the damned,
It’s no use my owning any of that crew:
How many I’ve already done with too!
Yet new fresh blood is always going round.
So it goes on, men make me furious!
With water, earth and air, of course,
A thousand buds unfurl
In wet and dry, warm and cold!
And if I hadn’t kept back fire of old,
I’d have nothing left at all.
from: "Faust" Part I, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1/07/2009
Quote of the moment...
"Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. "
Christopher Morley
A great woman...and a beautifull poem
A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker
A dream lies dead here. May you softly go
Before this place, and turn away your eyes,
Nor seek to know the look of that which dies
Importuning Life for life. Walk not in woe,
But, for a little, let your step be slow.
And, of your mercy, be not sweetly wise
With words of hope and Spring and tenderer skies.
A dream lies dead; and this all mourners know:
Whenever one drifted petal leaves the tree-
Though white of bloom as it had been before
And proudly waitful of fecundity-
One little loveliness can be no more;
And so must Beauty bow her imperfect head
Because a dream has joined the wistful dead!
1/06/2009
Quote of the moment...
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. "
Konrad Adenauer
1/05/2009
Quote of the moment...
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.
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