“I decline to accept the end of man... I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”
― William Faulkner
@edgarblythe,
Ah, Faulkner at UVA.
Hope you don't mind me doing "songs that tell quotations", Texas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HJvX1X7Rg&feature=related
Robert Browning and his wife Elizabeth are quoted in this song.
"May the Lord come to the aid of our world torn by so many conflicts which even today stain the earth with blood."
Pope Benedict XVI in his annual Christmas address yesterday
@Letty,
I am an admirer of the Brownings and John, letty.
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela
The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
~ Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989)
“One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.”
Eugene J. McCarthy
"Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”
― Allen Ginsberg
“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
― Moshe Dayan
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
Anonymous.
@eurocelticyankee,
"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."
Marion Howard
“If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.”
Thomas Wolfe
“Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young and so prone to mistakes?”
-- from"This Burns My Heart” by Samuel Park
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
Aitken Roshi
@edgarblythe,
It takes more muscles to frown than to smile. So it's no wonder I was exhausted after watching
Cheaper By The Dozen 2.
Robert Webb.
"I don't need to look up my family tree because I know that I'm the sap."
Fred Allen
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
Voltaire
@edgarblythe,
Love that one by Voltaire, edgar.
Robert Frost Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.
