quoth the madman
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
~Maya Angelou
quoth the madman
"Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
~Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
quoth the madman
"Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary."
—Chuck Palahniuk
quoth the madman
~Fydor Dostoevsky
quoth the madman
"I search and can’t find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing."
~Fernando Pessoa
~Fernando Pessoa
ars poetica
"My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly."
~Sierra DeMulder, Unrequited Love Poem
quoth the madman
"Still I have always been drawn by windblown clouds into dreams of a lifetime of wandering."
~Matsuo Basho (1644-94) Zen Abbot
ars poetica
"Beneath the blue oblivious sky, the water
sings of nothing, not your name, not mine."
— Don Paterson
sings of nothing, not your name, not mine."
— Don Paterson
quoth the madman
"A god come to earth ought to do nothing but wrong: to take upon oneself, not the punishment, but the guilt—only that would be godlike."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
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“We have come to the Age of Double Men. We don’t need mirrors anymore to talk to ourselves… We are made of dream and dreams are made of us.”
—Jean Luc Godard. Pierrot Le Fou
quoth the madman
I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here
Charles Bukowski
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You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
~Frank McCourt, from “Angela’s Ashes”
quoth the madman
"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns into
absolute madness."
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
quoth the madman
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
~Maxine Hong Kingston
~Maxine Hong Kingston
ars poetica
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
~Langston Hughes
quoth the madman
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude.
It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
~Jodi Picoult
quoth the madman
Drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested.
~Hunter S Thompson
quoth the madman
~Henry Rollins
quoth the madman
"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
~Albert Schweitzer
Lyrical
"And I'll crawl over fifty good pussies just to get one fat boy's asshole..."
~Nick Cave - Stagger Lee
~Nick Cave - Stagger Lee
ars poetica
This is for every time
Love becomes the finest minute and the darkest hour.
This if for those who scour the streets
Wondering where the wild things went.
For the believers who leant us their madness.
This is for everyone we miss.
Shane Koyzan
quoth the madman
"Permit yourself to flow and overflow. Allow for the rise in temperature and all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess."
~Anaïs Nin
ars poetica
"Once I wounded him with
so small a thorn
I never thought his flesh would burn
or that the heat within would grow
until he stood
incandescent as a god"
so small a thorn
I never thought his flesh would burn
or that the heat within would grow
until he stood
incandescent as a god"
~Sylvia Plath, To a Jilted Lover
quoth the madman
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
~Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.
~Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
ars poetica
"I will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air, alive, with closed eyes."
~e.e. cummings
~e.e. cummings
quoth the madman
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear.
If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
~Eckhart Tolle
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And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.
~The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwoodliteracki
I kissed him passionately, I even wanted to bruise him, so that he would not be able to forget me."
~Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
quoth the madman
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