Thursday, March 25, 2010
e e cummings
He's quirky, creative, original, and one hell of a good poet. I approve.
"listen: there's one Hell of a good universe next door; let's go"
"no one, not even the rain, has such small hands"
"as freedom is a breakfastfood"
"-long enough and just so long / tomorrow will not be too late"
"time is a tree(this life one leaf) / but love is the sky and i am for you / just so long and long enough"
"i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"
"when the world is puddle-wonderful"
"far and wee"
All of the following poems (couldn't pick lines because the entire things were so beautiful):
"in time of daffodils(who know"
"moan"
"love is a place"
"may my heart always be open to little"
"little tree"
"l(a"
"O sweet spontaneous"
"who knows if the moon's"
"because I love you)last night"
Friday, October 2, 2009
Quote_Pierre Bottero
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Quote stolen from Meople's blog. (Sorry...sort of)
Other quotes:
“Nature has her proper interest; and he will know
what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing
has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.” —
“Nature brings to every time and season some beauties of its own.” —
"I put a capital N on nature and call it my church." -
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Lord Byron quotes (fragments from Manfred")
“My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, / But a continuance of enduring thought, / Which then I can resist not: in my heart / There is a vigil, and these eyes but close / To look within; […]”
“as rain unto the sands”
“spirits of the unbound Universe!”
“breath of twilight”
“[…] in a robe of clouds, / With a diadem of snow.”
“Where the wind is a stranger”
“Space bosom’d not a lovelier star.”
“[…] clouds / Rise curling fast beneath me, […] / Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, / Whose every wave breaks on a living shore”
Shelley quotes (fragments, mostly)
"The everlasting universe of things/Flows through the mind, [...]"
"Thou many-coloured, many-voiced vale, / Over whose pines, and crags, and caverns sail / Fast cloud shadows and sunbeams [...]"
"Bursting through these dark mountains like the flame / Of lightning through the tempest; [...]"
"chainless winds"
"One legion of wild thoughts, whose wandering wings / Now float above thy darkness [...]"
"Some say that gleams of a remoter world / Visit the soul in sleep, [...]"
"A desert peopled by the storms alone,"
"None can reply--all seems eternal now."
"Fiery flood"
"Visit the hidden buds, or dreamless sleep / Holds every futre leaf and flower; [...]"
"star-beams"
"[...] The secret strength of things / Which governs thought, and to the infinite dome / Of heaven is as a law, inhabits thee! / And what were thou, and the earth, and the stars, and the sea, / If to the human mind's imaginings / Silence and solitude were vacancy?"
From "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty":
"like hues and harmonies of evening,--"
"Like memory of music fled,-- / Like aught that for its grace may be / Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery."
"Or moonlight on a midnight stream, / Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream."
From "Ode to the West Wind":
"[...] the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,"
"Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread / On the blue surface of thine aery surge,"
"Lulled by the coil of his chrystalline streams,"
"sea-blooms"
"As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. /Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! / I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
"A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed / One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud."
"The tumult of thy mighty harmonies"
"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
From Prometheus Unbound:
"[...] who throng those bright and rolling Worlds"
"[...] The Sea, in storm or calm, /Heaven's ever-changing Shadow, spread below-- / Have its deaf waves not heard my agony?"
"shapeless sights"
"many-voiced Echoes"
"And ye swift Whirlwinds, who on poised wings / Hung mute and moveless o'er yon hushed abyss"
"And died as mad as the wild waves be."
"As lighting tingles, hovering ere it strike.--"
"[...] --until his thunder chained thee here.--"
"The shadows of all forms that think and live"
"And iron wings that climb the wind"
"[...] the deep truth is imageless;"
"Each to itself must be the oracle.--
"a shroeless sea"
From "To a Sky-Lark":
"In the golden lightning / Of the sunken Sun--"
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
When in doubt, quote.
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love".
"My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me."
Friday, October 17, 2008
quote: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
What's your reason to live? Why do you get up in the morning? I live for my family and friends, for books (reading and writing), for music, for the sky. I don't have a specific reason. Some days I wonder what the point of getting out of bed would be that day. Some days I don't know why I keep on trucking. Except for the fact that it would be an almighty waste of everything anyone put into making me, educating me, feeding me, etc. The way I phrased that sounds depressing and a bit morbid. Sorry about that. I hope you understand what I mean.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
_La_Peau_de_chagrin by Honore de Balzac QUOTE
(Here, one can write one's self.)
