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Hepcat61
geoff cat
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geoff cat
Dangerous Mind
33
Joined 27th Nov 2015Forum Posts: 1028
"Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault."
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Silver_Birch
Joined 26th Sep 2019
Forum Posts: 6
Lost Thinker
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“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits
― Tom Waits
LUUH19
Emeraldia
Joined 5th Aug 2014
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Emeraldia
Thought Provoker
Forum Posts: 72
''All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses
And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.''
- Walt Whitman
And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.''
- Walt Whitman
Anonymous
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David_Macleod
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14397816
Tyrant of Words
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Joined 5th Nov 2014Forum Posts: 2983
"To aspire to be a poet is a noble quest."
David Macleod 2019
David Macleod 2019
Umm
Forum Posts: 2373
Dangerous Mind
1
Joined 6th Dec 2015Forum Posts: 2373
"by being both here and beyond
I am becoming a horizon"
- Mark Strand
I am becoming a horizon"
- Mark Strand
Layla
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Fire of Insight
7
Joined 3rd May 2018Forum Posts: 1216
"If Life was so great, there wouldn't be death." A quote from a jewish guy who I used to work with 3 yrs ago.
cold_fusion
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Tyrant of Words
20
Joined 14th June 2017 Forum Posts: 5266
They say uncertainty kills. I love giving it to my ill wishers.
Cold_fusion@DU
Cold_fusion@DU
butters
Forum Posts: 868
Fire of Insight
3
Joined 17th Sep 2019Forum Posts: 868
the self-absorbed seem to find endless interest in the shallow nature of their navels; there's a great big world to discover if only they'll lift their eyes
There are so many!
'I'm not interested in preserving the status quo, I wish to overthrow it.' - Machiavelli
'If you want to provoke, provoke someone who is stronger than you, or else you are misusing your power.' - Lars von Trier
'Quiet is the new loud' - Patrick Stump
'I just want to inflict some change on people' - Brendon Urie
Those are the four that are around me in my office most of the time.
'I'm not interested in preserving the status quo, I wish to overthrow it.' - Machiavelli
'If you want to provoke, provoke someone who is stronger than you, or else you are misusing your power.' - Lars von Trier
'Quiet is the new loud' - Patrick Stump
'I just want to inflict some change on people' - Brendon Urie
Those are the four that are around me in my office most of the time.
Umm
Forum Posts: 2373
Dangerous Mind
1
Joined 6th Dec 2015Forum Posts: 2373
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World
If the gods bring to you
a strange and frightening creature,
accept the gift
as if it were one you had chosen.
Say the accustomed prayers,
oil the hooves well,
caress the small ears with praise.
Have the new halter of woven silver
embedded with jewels.
Spare no expense, pay what is asked,
when a gift arrives from the sea.
Treat it as you yourself
would be treated, brought speechless and naked
into the court of a king.
And when the request finally comes,
do not hesitate even an instant----
stroke the white throat,
the heavy trembling dewlaps
you'd come to believe were yours,
and plunge in the knife.
Not once
did you enter the pasture
without pause,
without yourself trembling,
that you came to love it, that was the gift.
Let the envious gods take back what they can.
- Jane Hirshfield
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Side note: Thank you to everyone for the wonderful quotes in this thread. So great to see so many posting in it <3
If the gods bring to you
a strange and frightening creature,
accept the gift
as if it were one you had chosen.
Say the accustomed prayers,
oil the hooves well,
caress the small ears with praise.
Have the new halter of woven silver
embedded with jewels.
Spare no expense, pay what is asked,
when a gift arrives from the sea.
Treat it as you yourself
would be treated, brought speechless and naked
into the court of a king.
And when the request finally comes,
do not hesitate even an instant----
stroke the white throat,
the heavy trembling dewlaps
you'd come to believe were yours,
and plunge in the knife.
Not once
did you enter the pasture
without pause,
without yourself trembling,
that you came to love it, that was the gift.
Let the envious gods take back what they can.
- Jane Hirshfield
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Side note: Thank you to everyone for the wonderful quotes in this thread. So great to see so many posting in it <3
Anonymous
Ooofff. Umm that poem was heavy. Saved for my own personal collection. Reminds me of the poem Sometimes A Wild God which has become somewhat of a personal motto for me: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F5lJnbB4woQ
LJRoundTown
LJ
Joined 20th Sep 2019
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LJ
Lost Thinker
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“The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
― Napoleon Hill
― Napoleon Hill
Ahavati
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Tyrant of Words
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Joined 11th Apr 2015Forum Posts: 14574
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