some of my poetry
random quotes
"Therefore: what exists serves for possession.
What does not exist serves for effectiveness."
-Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
"if you hurt me right you'd never hurt me wrong"
-Take A Chain To Me - Holcombe Waller
"Sometimes you bleed just to know you're alive."
-Goo Goo Dolls
"She turned me into a newt!"
"A newt?!"
"...... I got better..."
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"she never let on how insane it was
in that tiny kinda scary house"
-Black-Dove(January) - Tori
"The earth opens like a beak through which I sing."
"over the suicidal approaches where guns have human eyes..."
"Draw the hour, dark as a bruise..."
-Virginia Hamilton Adair
"and the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all."
"the things I dreamt about you last night made me blush."
-Indigo Girls
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
-The Princess Bride
"The lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but ot the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and the source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows."
-Thomas Mann
"We've travelled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation."
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
"I shall not disguise the face that I am fond of what you call comfort, but at the same time I have very little desire to live. Interpret this contradiction as you will."
- Turgenev
"It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives."
- Sir Francis Bacon
"Every living thing’s a fool but some fools say they’re wise - some put faith in half-truths, others only lies."
- Sharon Burdick
"The development of stimulating systems that are specific to individuals is called epigamic distinction. I call it being in love."
- Lovejoy
"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going and then go with the drove."
- Mark Twain
"I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep."
- Counting Crows
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor."
- R. A. Heinlein
"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."
- Darwin
"It is always better to argue with a living opponent than with a dead book."
- S. A. Kanatchikov
"The receptive power of the masses is very limited, their understanding small; on the other hand, they have a great power of forgetting."
- Hitler
"A great man need not keep his word, nor does he necessarily see his action through to the end. He aims only at what is right."
- Mencius
"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."
- Anais Nin
"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."
- Aphra Behn
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
- J. F. Kennedy
"We will proceed on our way according to the old slogan - with our leaders, if they wish; without them, if they do not wish; against them, if they oppose us."
-Bogdanov
"The right to self-determination means that only the nation itself has the right to determine its destiny, that no one has the right forcibly to interfere in the life of the nation, to destroy its schools and other institutions, to violate its habits and customs, to repress its language, or curtail its rights…"
-Josef Stalin
"Do questions ever reveal the soul of man? Are answers to them ever convincing or true? There are no right questions and no true answers. Truth is that which questions do not invoke, and it cuts right across all answers, having its own direction."
-Fyodor Gladkov
"mental health is overrated"
-Barenaked Ladies
"I did not want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hads turned up and be utterly empty."
-Sylvia Plath
"am I two souls, one hard one whole, am I real?"
-Toad
"The common woman is as common as a thunderstorm."
"I will not let your bias become my limitation."
"heat of a posoned sun fuelled by false fantasies"
"I cannot be your simile for sadness, I am not a metaphor for your human race."
"Am I to be profligate as if I were a blonde?"
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'good dog' while you look for a stick."
"I sit at my table and wage war on myself."
"Don't you try to right now all the wrong you did, I might forget you but not forgive."
"a poet is not a jukebox so don't tell me what to write."
"to betray philosophy is the gentle treason of poets."
"I want you to see this before you leave, the failure of criticism to locate the pain,
the poster on the bus that said 'My bleeding is under control.'"
"no subtle fugues between black day, black night, no grays, no subterfuge in this straight light."
"The psychopath in a position of supreme power is almost commonplace, for no one except a psychopath wants supreme power. To enjoy power to to be damned. To enjoy arbitrary power is to be damned beyond any hope of ultimate redemption."
-Unknowns (in other words, I can't remember)
Go where I say so...
Authors
Virginia Hamilton Adair
Robert A. Heinlein
Music
Tori Amos
Metallica
Savatage
Queensryche
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Vertical Horizon
Type O Negative
Dark Tranquility
Art
Rene Magritte
Scott Mutter (and other surrealist artists)
Randomness
SOLO Schools (where I did my WEMT certification)
Mokolodi Game Park Cheetah petting outside Gaborone, Botswana
Mosetlha Bush Camp in Madikwe Game Park (South Africa)
Fawlty Towers (Zambia) (for Vic Falls info...)
Audi Camp (for Okavango Delta info)
Brown University
Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative
Email: KeSiame
