so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
@edgarblythe,
Shoot it Jimmy! was the poem that first brought him to my attention.
I like the way he described The Wasteland as a tragedy, I was never much of a fan of TS Eliot.
@izzythepush,
Elliot is a tough read for me. I prefer to read about him rather than by him.
“The man who thinks nothing is sacred also considers nothing profane.”
-A true Snoodism
I've always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely
Rhett to Scarlett
@edgarblythe,
I would rather sit in silence and be thought of as dumb, than to open my mouth and remove all doubt.
“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
― Charles Baudelaire
“They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.”
Humphrey Bogart
“In this country, American means white. Everyone else has to hyphenate.”
- Toni Morrison
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson
"I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.”
Babe Ruth
- Reported reply when a reporter objected that the salary Ruth was demanding ($80,000) was more than that of President Herbert Hoover's ($75,000)
“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde
“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
― Malcolm X
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
"You know what, evolution is a myth….Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?" - Christine O’Donnell
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James Thurber
“But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..”
― James Joyce
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you."
Joey Adams
