Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[JakeTulane]

"For me, the different religions
are beautiful flowers from the same garden,
or they are branches of the same majestic tree.
Therefore, they are equally true,
though being received and interpreted
through human instruments equally imperfect."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

[JakeTulane]

"to touch is to heal,
to hurt is to steal,
if you wanna kiss the sky
better learn how to kneel,
...on your knees boy!"
~ from "Mysterious Ways" by U2 ~

[JakeTulane]

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Camus

[always2late]

"There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, and to love them almost despite themselves." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

[Semantics]

Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial. The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.

Rob Brezsny



If things seem like they're under control, maybe you're not moving fast enough.

Rob Brezsny


Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.


Rob Brezsny

[Mister Bent]

Drinking While Driving
It's August and I have not
Read a book in six months
except something called The Retreat from Moscow
by Caulaincourt
Nevertheless, I am happy
Riding in a car with my brother
and drinking from a pint of Old Crow.
We do not have any place in mind to go,
we are just driving.
If I closed my eyes for a minute
I would be lost, yet
I could gladly lie down and sleep forever
beside this road
My brother nudges me.
Any minute now, something will happen.


An Afternoon
As he writes, without looking at the sea,
he feels the tip of his pen begin to tremble.
The tide is going out across the shingle.
But it isn't that. No,
it's because at that moment she chooses
to walk into the room without any clothes on.
Drowsy, not even sure where she is
for a moment. She waves the hair from her forehead.
Sits on the toilet with her eyes closed,
head down. Legs sprawled. He sees her
through the doorway. Maybe
she's remembering what happened that morning.
For after a time, she opens one eye and looks at him.
And sweetly smiles.

[Jet]

Color As Beginning
Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow hair

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December 30
At 1:30 in the morning a fart
smells like a marriage between
an avocado and a fish head.

I have to get out of bed
to write this down without
my glasses on.

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Deer Tracks
Beautiful, sobbing
high-geared fucking
and then to lie silently
like deer tracks in the
freshly-fallen snow beside
the one you love.
That's all.

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Haiku Ambulance
A piece of green pepper
fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?

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Love Poem
It's so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don't love them
any more.

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The Xerox Candy Bar
You're just like all
the other candy bars
I've eaten.

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The Pill vs. The Springhill Mine Disaster
When you take your pill,
I think of all the people
lost inside of you.

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My Nose Is Growing Old
Yup.
A long lazy September look
in the mirror
say it's true.

I'm 31
and my nose is growing
old.

It starts about 1/2
an inch
below the bridge
and strolls geriatrically
down
for another inch or so:
stopping.

Fortunately, the rest
of the nose is comparatively
young.

I wonder if girls
will want me with an
old nose.

I can hear them now
the heartless bitches!

"He's cute
but his nose
is old.

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Private Eye Lettuce
Three crates of Private Eye Lettuce,
the name and drawing of a detective
with magnifying glass on the sides
of the crates of lettuce,
form a great cross in man’s imagination
and his desire to name
the objects of this world.
I think I’ll call this place Golgotha
and have some salad for dinner.

Some of the poems of the late Richard Brautigan

[JakeTulane]

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ~Charles Dickens

[JakeTulane]

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

[JakeTulane]

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden." ~Ruth Stout

[Andrew, Jr.]

St. Francis of Assisi

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
Nothing so gentle as real strength."

I used this in my late sister's CaringBridge site to describe her. It was also used for her prayer cards at the viewing.





Maya Angelou

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

[Soft*Silver]

the reason cats are so silent is that there is very little in the world that needs further comment

Mr Smitty the one eyed rocking on limping kitty

[always2late]

"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom." - Merry Browne

[violaine]

there is no phrase without a double meaning--
--african proverb



shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow--
--swedish proverb

age, like distance, lends a double charm--
--oliver wendell holmes

double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble--
--william shakespeare

[Diva]

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

[Diva]

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Spirit Dancer]

No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go
there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then
one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything
comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.

E. Stanley Jones

[purepisces]

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~ Walter Anderson

[purepisces]

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~ H. Jackson Browne

[purepisces]

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~ A.A. Milne