Favorite poems and quotations.

[godslave]

Deep in the hundred acre wood
Where Christopher Robin plays
You will find the enchanted neighbourhood
Of Christopher's childhood days
A donkey named Eeyore is his friend
And Kanga and little Roo
There's Rabbit and Piglet
And there's Owl
But most of all Winnie the Pooh

 

[Metamorph]

[Metaphor]

"Man is condemned to be free." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Genius is one-storey above madness." - Arthur Schopenhauer

That's all.

[Squirrel]

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet. ‒

Ernest Hemingway

[VewyScawwyNawcissist]

[Bethanyclaire]

watching the bbc Marie Antoinette, they describe falling in love- 'it's like a bucking bronco, it goes up.....and...down...up..and down...and up...down...it's the worst feeling in the world, and the best'.

[HeInin]

A rhyme who was taught to me when I was in high school, in a Spanish class:

Rhyme IV - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Do not say the treasury is exhausted,
lacking topics, that the lyre is silent;
there may not be poets, but always—
there will be poetry.
While the waves, kissed by light,
throb and ignite,
while the sun tears the clouds
with fire and golden views,
while the air in its bosom carries
perfume and harmony,
while there is spring in the world,
There will be poetry!
While science does not discover
the source of life,
and in the sea or in the sky there is an abyss
that resists our calculation,
while humanity is always advancing,
not knowing where it walks,
while there is a mystery to man,
There will be poetry!
While you feel the soul laughing
without the lips moving;
while you cry without the tears coming
to cloud the pupils,
while the heart and head
continue their battle,
while there are hopes and memories,
There will be poetry!
While there are some eyes that reflect
the eyes that look on them,
while the sighing lips respond
to the lips that sigh,
while we can feel in a kiss
our two souls combined,
while exists a beautiful woman,
There will be poetry!

Translation by Frank Watson

[rizz]

[Hot Scalding Gayser]

[rizz]

[InterPrizeWes]

Einstein says Buddhism is the best religion, coexisting and synchronizing aims of nobility and wonder to pour through rivers of time and distance peering ever fluctuating across separate elsewheres and rabbit hole constellation bonding!!

[Park]

When winter is on again
Fragrance ends
And the withered leaves
Drift down from the dying trees
As they find release
But I'll remember it —
The sweet perfume of
Orange blossoms in summertime


And when we are far apart
And my heart feels
A winter chill
I've got to lay down and cry
But I know, by and by
That I'll remember it —
The sweet perfume of
Orange blossoms in summertime

[godslave]

Disclaimer : Google translate (I rectified a mistranslated sentence )

"Balzac is like those people who, hearing a Monsieur say: "le Prince" when speaking of the Duc d'Aumale, "Madame la duchesse" when speaking of a duchess, and seeing him put his hat on the floor in a salon, before learning that one says of a prince: le Prince, whether he is called the Comte de Paris, the Prince de Joinville or the Duc de Chartres, and other usages, said "Why do you say: le Prince, since he is a duke? Why do you say Mme la duchesse, as a servant, etc.?" But since they know it's customary, they think they've always known it, or, if they remember having made these objections, they don't stop lecturing others, and take pleasure in explaining to them the usages of the big world, usages they've only known for a short time. Their peremptory tone of yesterday's scholars is precisely that of Balzac when he says what ought to be done and what not."


Marcel Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve, Folio essais, p. 204 - 205

The bold and underlined part is an expression that I particularly like and use often. In French it's "Les savants de la veille".

[Squirrel]

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you without knowing how,
or when,
or from where.
I love you straightforwardly,
without complexities or pride;

by : Pablo Neruda

[Vex]

To feel anything deranges you.
To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.

-Anne Carson.

[InterPrizeWes]

Ignoring the flow of nature is following no way. Resisting the flow of nature is following the low way. Going with the flow of nature is following the middle way. Focusing the flow of nature is following the high way.

[theum nathair]

[theum nathair]

I have forgiven the world for the love of you

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas [1844–46]

[theum nathair]

every other consideration fell away. Maybe it was this purposefulness which got him through the blood-letting alive, though bullets filled the air like flies. His very indifference was a kind of blessedness. What he failed to notice, failed in turn to notice him. Thus he went unscathed through the heart of the battle

Clive Barker, Weaveworld [1987]

[Adam Strange]

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don’t know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can’t find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

discovering there is
such a secret, yes,
for that,
most of all.

-Denise Levertov, “The Secret”

[one]

Someday I would understand why we have to cut them up like that instead of just making them sentences.

[Adam Strange]

Someday I would understand why we have to cut them up like that instead of just making them sentences.

Poetry is the bridge between thought and feelings, between thinking and emotion. Breaking up logical sentences like that disrupts the juggernaut of linear thought and allows the flow of emotions to have a central role.

The human mechanism which is responsible for switching from one function, say "thinking", to another, like "feeling", when logic doesn't work is the same mechanism that is responsible for an un-Dualized person to start resembling an inept version of their Dual.

When life throws things at you which your two dominant functions can't handle, and places you in crisis, your weaker functions take over and try to salvage what they can. These weaker functions are your Dual's stronger functions, so you can appear to act like your own Dual. However, your weaker functions are still weak, and so you can't perform as well as your Dual would in that situation.

This is the reasoning behind the assertion that a Dual is the best match for us, and this becomes apparent most obviously when both you and your Dual are in crisis, because you can then each effortlessly fix your Dual's problems.

Absent a life crisis, and your Dual seems to be a really different person, who incorporates every feature and characteristic that you rejected on your way to success in your own life, opting instead for the functions which make you the person whom you are.

[Adam Strange]

Te:

We’ll call this, This,
and we’ll call that, That,
and thereby,
with this delineation,
we’ll make the World
sane.