I'm Mark. The internet is very fun. This is my generally words weblog. MARKODORE64 is my generally geeky weblog and DIALMFORMARK is my generally movies weblog. I probably have more you don't know of. ^_^
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
— Jeremy Bentham
Death is the enemy. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding o Death! The waves broke on the shore.
— Virginia Woolf
Poetry is a kind of lying.
necessarily. To profit the poet
or beauty. But also in
that truth may be told only so.
— Jack Gilbert
to see what is
in front of one’s
nose requires a
constant struggle
— George Orwell
Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
— William Shakespeare, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HratBHy1B0Y
Parents are dependent on a greater society for economic provision. If a community values its children it must cherish their parents.
— Bowlby, 1951
tales
of what could never have been actual
were better than the haggish, uncompanionable drawl of certitude;
— Marianne Moore, In This Age of Hard Trying, Nonchalance Is Good and, 1916
commuters’ comforts? Not for these
the paper nautilus
constructs her thin glass shell.
— Marianne Moore, The Paper Nautilus, 1961
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 55, ca. 1600
