Favourite poems and quotes

[Pel]

[Jackalope]

I like the one about that guy from Nantucket.

[Tobie]

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams

[frankiej]

"When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies."
~Bruce Campbell

[Jackalope]

We'll need a whole new thread for all of the good Bruce Campbell quotes.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Victory needs no explanation, defeat allows none.

[Erinome]

cows in art class

good weather
is like
good women-
it doesn't always happen
and when it does
it doesn't
always last.
man is
more stable:
if he's bad
there's more chance
he'll stay that way,
or if he's good
he might hang
on,
but a woman
is changed
by
children
age
diet
conversation
sex
the moon
the absence or
presence of sun
or good times.
a woman must be nursed
into subsistence
by love
where a man can become
stronger
by being hated.
I am drinking tonight in Spangler's Bar
and I remember the cows
I once painted in Art class
and they looked good
they looked better than anything
in here. I am drinking in Spangler's Bar
wondering which to love and which
to hate, but the rules are gone:
I love and hate only
myself-
they stand outside me
like an orange dropped from the table
and rolling away; it's what I've got to
decide:
kill myself or
love myself?
which is the treason?
where's the information
coming from?
books...like broken glass:
I wouldn't wipe my ass with 'em
yet, it's getting
darker, see?
(we drink here and speak to
each other and
seem knowing.)
buy the cow with the biggest
tits
buy the cow with the biggest
rump.
present arms.
the bartender slides me a beer
it runs down the bar
like an Olympic sprinter
and the pair of pliers that is my hand
stops it, lifts it,
golden piss of dull temptation,
I drink and
stand there
the weather bad for cows
but my brush is ready
to stroke up
the green grass straw eye
sadness takes me all over
and I drink the beer straight down
order a shot
fast
to give me the guts and the love to
go
on.

Bukowski

From "poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window" -1966

[Whateverist]

Fire and Ice


Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.


Robert Frost

[thesummerqueen]

[Erinome]

Walt Whitman is one of my favorites. It was wonderful to hear that poem read aloud in such a way. Thank you for sharing that.