Wednesday, December 7, 2005

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past."
- Robertson Davies

"GOOD-BYE," I said to my conscience--
"Good-bye for aye and aye,"
And I put her hands off harshly,
And turned my face away;
And conscience smitten sorely
Returned not from that day.

But a time came when my spirit
Grew weary of its pace;
And I cried: "Come back, my conscience;
I long to see thy face."
But conscience cried: "I cannot;
Remorse sits in my place."
- Paul Laurence Dunbar

"So what's the use to burn and bleed
And strive for beauty's sake?
No one your poetry will read,
Your heart will only break.
But set your song in vulgar pitch,
If rhyme you will not rue,
And make your heroine a bitch...
Like Lady Lou."
- Robert Service

"Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
- Johann von Goethe

"You can never plan the future by the past."
- Edmund Burke

"Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you always try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We use what we've been given. We'll run on our own legs as far as it takes."
- Kiba, Wolf's Rain

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words."
- Robert Frost

"It comes to a point where feelings gotta get hurt, and get dirty with the people spreadin' the dirt."
- Linkin Park, Nobody's Listening

"Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain?"
- Dave Matthews Band, Gravedigger

"Oh, 1940 to 1992."
- Dave Matthews Band, Gravedigger

"I am not going to kill you - I am going to break you."
- Naraku, Inuyasha

"You can die at any time, but it takes true courage to live."
- Kenshin, Rurouni Kenshin

"In wilderness is the preservation of the world, so seek the wolf in thyself."
- Metallica, Of Wolf and Man

"Boil the land,
And burn the sea.
You can't take the sky from me."
- Sonny Rhodes, Ballad Of Serenity
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