dorothy parker
Tao Te Ching Verse 8
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep in the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.No fight: No blame.
(Translation by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English)
Rolling Stone Interview
Rolling Stone: Lyrically, does it get any better than "It's Alright, Ma"?
Bob Dylan: It's hard to live up to that kind of thing. You can't try to top it — that's not the point. Lyrically you can't top it, no. I still can play that song, and I know what it can do. That song was written with a hunger that can break down stone walls. That was the motivation.
but I say whatever
one loves, is
one loves, is
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| — | Sappho, Poems and Fragments, trans. Stanley Lombardo (via proustitute) |
..and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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| — | Vincent van Gogh |
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!
“
| — | “Afternoon on a Hill,” Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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| — | Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (via secretedsins) |
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile
“
| — | e.e. cummings |
