Saturday, 23 October 2010
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
The Dispossessed
You cannot make the Revolution.
You can only be the Revolution.
It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere.
Etiketler:
Ch. 9 (p. 301),
ursula k. le guin
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Sunday, 3 October 2010
rubiats
Were it not folly, spider-like to spin
The thread of present life away to win --
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!
**
I sent my soul through the invisible,
Some letter of that after-life to spell:
And after many days my soul return'd
And said "Behold, Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
**
Then said another --"Surely not in vain
My substance from the common Earth was ta'en,
That he who subtly wrought me into shape
Should stamp me back to common Earth again."
**
With them the seed of wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd --
"I came like water and like wind I go."
**Translated to English in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald
Etiketler:
omar khayyam
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Monday, 6 September 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Friday, 13 August 2010
- ***
- There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
- There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
- There is society, where none intrudes,
- By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
- I love not man the less, but Nature more.
- From these our interviews, in which I steal
- From all I may be, or have been before,
- To mingle with the Universe, and feel
- What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
- What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
- What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
- To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
- And be alone on earth, as I am now.
- 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die;
- It hath no flatterers; vanity can give
- No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive.
Etiketler:
Childe Harold,
lord byron quotes
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Sunday, 8 August 2010
from the old story teller
And a Man sat alone, drenched deep in sadness. And all the animals drew near to him and said, "We do not like to see you so sad. Ask us for whatever you wish and you shall have it." The Man said, "I want to have good sight." The vulture replied, "You shall have mine." The Man said, "I want to be strong." The jaguar said, "You shall be strong like me." Then the Man said, "I long to know the secrets of the earth." The serpent replied, "I will show them to you." And so it went with all the animals. And when the Man had all the gifts that they could give, he left. Then the owl said to the other animals, "Now the Man knows much, he'll be able to do many things. Suddenly I am afraid." The deer said, "The Man has all that he needs. Now his sadness will stop." But the owl replied, "No. I saw a hole in the Man, deep like a hunger he will never fill. It is what makes him sad and what makes him want. He will go on taking and taking, until one day the World will say, 'I am no more and I have nothing left to give.
Etiketler:
apocalypto