@edgarblythe,
Quote:“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
Witness the English Peeves threads and the threads on US terrorism/war crimes.
“A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh
Birthday wishes to writer Salman Rushdie (born today in 1947).
@edgarblythe,
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool-shun him
He who knows not and knows that he knows not, is simple-teach him
He who knows and knows that he knows is wise-follow him
An Arabic proverb
“Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights
Tahir Shah is the author of ten books, chronicling a wide range of unusual and outlandish journeys. He also makes documentaries, writes screenplays, works as a journalist and photographer. His most recent book is The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca. He is also the author of In Search of King Solomon's Mines which takes the reader through Ethiopia on the quest of the source of Solomon's Fabulous wealth. Shah's books and feature articles have appeared in many languages, all over the world. He lives in Casablanca with his wife and two children.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
R L Stevenson
“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
@edgarblythe,
"Don't hope for anything from America . . . It's a country that doesn't know love."
Alfred Stieglitz to Albert Camus.
@edgarblythe,
These were the years just before the great catastrophe of our letters – the appearance of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
William Carlos Williams
@edgarblythe,
That is one of my favourites. There's something about it that's so elegant. Thank you.
@izzythepush,
He wrote it specially for rockhead.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915
@edgarblythe,
That doesn't surprise me. Rockhead is the archetypal muse.
"The paradox is the source of the thinker's passion and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity."
-- Soren Kierkegaard
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
@spendius,
And that's your quote of the day is it?
Somehow I can't see it becoming part of the collective unconsciousness.
Virtue, alas! not unfrequently trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty.
Eugene Sue
@edgarblythe,
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
~ Winston Churchill
I've always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely
Rhett to Scarlett
