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  • #1
    Louise Glück
    “From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”
    Louise Gluck

  • #2
    Louise Glück
    “At first I saw you everywhere.
    Now only in certain things,
    at longer intervals.”
    Louise Glück

  • #3
    Louise Glück
    “I was not prepared: sunset, end of summer. Demonstrations
    of time as a continuum, as something coming to an end,

    not a suspension: the senses wouldn’t protect me.
    I caution you as I was never cautioned:

    you will never let go, you will never be satiated.
    You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger.

    Your body will age, you will continue to need.
    You will want the earth, then more of the earth–

    Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond.
    It is encompassing, it will not minister.

    Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you,
    it will not keep you alive.”
    Louise Glück, The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable

  • #4
    Louise Glück
    “He takes her in his arms
    He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you
    But he thinks
    this is a lie, so he says in the end
    You're dead, nothing can hurt you
    which seems to him
    a more promising beginning, more true.”
    Louise Glück

  • #5
    Louise Glück
    “Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as
    the image of my father, whose life
    was spent like this,
    thinking of death, to the exclusion
    of other sensual matters,
    so in the end that life
    was easy to give up, since
    it contained nothing: even
    my mother's voice couldn't make him
    change or turn back
    as he believed
    that once you can't love another human being
    you have no place in the world. ”
    Louise Glück

  • #6
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #8
    Robert Frost
    “Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.
    From what I've tasted of desire,
    I hold with those who favor fire.
    But if it had to perish twice
    I think I know enough of hate
    To say that for destruction ice
    Is also great
    And would suffice.”
    Robert Frost

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Emily Dickinson
    “An ear can break a human heart
    As quickly as a spear,
    We wish the ear had not a heart
    So dangerously near.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #11
    Emily Dickinson
    “My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #12
    Emily Dickinson
    “If you were coming in the fall,
    I'd brush the summer by,
    With half a smile and half a spurn,
    As housewives do a fly.

    If I could see you in a year,
    I'd wind the months in balls,
    And put them each in separate drawers,
    Until their time befalls.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: love

  • #13
    Dylan Thomas
    “I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #14
    Dylan Thomas
    “Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
    Because their words had forked no lightning they
    Do not go gentle into that good night.”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #15
    Dylan Thomas
    “Wales: The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it!”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #19
    Terry Pratchett
    “There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
    The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?
    And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye. ”
    Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation
    tags: life

  • #22
    Terry Pratchett
    “Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

  • #23
    Terry Pratchett
    “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

    Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

    But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

    This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
    Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #26
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #27
    Garrison Keillor
    “And then I stand in front of God's Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, 'You had your opportunities, boy. But did you listen? No. You went on heedlesly reading that garbagey magazine with pictures of naked girls in it. How juvenile! I gave geese more sense than that.'

    Please, God. I'm only fourteen years old. A teenager. Have mercy. Be loving.

    I was,' says God. 'For eons. And look at what it got me. You.'

    God turns in disgust, just the way Daddy does. 'Sorry, but I'm the Creator. I take it personally. There are slugs and bugs and night-crawlers I feel better about having created - I mean, there are sparrows - I've got my eye on one right now. Is that sparrow consumed with lust? No. He mates in the spring and that's the end of it. Consider the lilies. Do they think about lily tits all the time? No. They look not and they lust not, and yet I say unto you that you will never be half as attractive as they. Therefore, I say unto you, think not about peckers and boobs and all that nonsense and your Heavenly Father will see that you meet a good woman and marry her, just as I do for the sparrow and walleye - yea verily, even the night-crawler and the eelpout. But I've told you this over and over for nineteen centuries. And now, verily, it's too late. Time's up, buster. Lights out! Game's over!”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #30
    Douglas Adams
    “What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”
    Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts



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