Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. – Paul de Man
Philosophy
Quotes
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. – Hilaire Belloc
The good life
“It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.”
Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018
The good life
Oh, you want praise and recognition and above all money. But if that was your true motive, you would have done something else. All this fame and honor is a very nice thing, as long as you don’t believe it. – Howard Nemerov
Poetry
porn is the betrayed idyll
that came looking for itself
Laughs
These figures moving in my rhyme,
Who are they? Death and Death’s dog, Time. – N. Scott Momaday
Poetry
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian [whose] role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are – James Baldwin
Philosophy
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It’s a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault. – Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry
We say to ‘rise’ to fame and to ‘fall’ in love. Correction. We fall in fame and we rise to love.
Laughs
“Religions are big slow poems, while most poems are short, fast religions.” – Les Murray
Poetry
The venerated veal reared to reveal a real venereal ordeal.
Laughs
“Poetry for me is not work but pleasure, not a career but a second life—a play within a play.”- Peter Davison
Poetry
A poet is a lazy philosopher – K. Choi, lazy poet
Laughs
The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott
Philosophy
⇒ …but I don’t want to be a cynical asshole ⇒
…but I don’t want to be a naive idiot ⇒
Activism
Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. – Joseph Brodsky
Poetry
do trees hear music
when wind moves along their crown
and leaves a trembling
Poetry
…the aeons that it takes our minds to realize that our thinking is just matter lighting itself but there is no one looking.
Uncategorized
To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling.
(Pablo Neruda)
Poetry
Great was that chase with the hounds for the unattainable meaning
of the world.
And now I am ready to keep running
When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death.
– Czesław Miłosz
Poetry
For though I’m small, I know many things,
and my body is an endless eye
through which, unfortunately, I see everything. – Gloria Fuentes
Poetry
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life — Terry Pratchett
Laughs
Well, if it’s a choice between my personal interest and the good of my country, how can I waver? No one shall say Ninotchka was a bad Russian. – Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka
Laughs
For maggots, happiness is just around the coroner
Laughs