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POPSA kiss will never miss ~ How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~ Victor Hugo ~It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged...and found wanting.~ Hearts in Atlantis
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POPSHow to Write Aphorisms Delacroix, Eugene (France, 1798-1863) To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty; to be a poet at forty is to be a poet. According to James Geary, editor of the compendium Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists , a truely memorable, quotable aphorism satisfies five laws: It must be brief. It must be definitive. It must be personal — that's the difference between an aphorism and a proverb. It must be philosophical — that's the difference between an aphorism and a platitude, which is not philosophical.... And the fifth law is it must have a twist. And that can be either a linguistic twist or a psychological twist or even a twist in logic that somehow flips the reader into a totally unexpected place. Now you know, so get to work! :)
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POPSSteal my content, please!
I completely agree with Scoble on this one, although I can understand why people who make their living directly from their creations have a hard time letting go of the fear of giving away at least some of the rights to their content. Cory Doctorow began releasing all of his literary work under creative commons licenses years ago, allowing people to freely download and distribute his work under some light provisos. I downloaded and read "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" on my palm pilot, freely and legally, and was hooked. Because of that, I've read a huge amount of his writing, become a mammoth fan, and will likely purchase every book he publishes. I've also published everything I've written, shot, and produced under a similar license. While that certainly hasn't brought me traditional commercial success, it has definitely accelerated serendipity countless times for me, and if you trace out the effects of those 'lucky' events, it's helped shape both my career and life.
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POPSJefferson - A new Quote - by a deeply religious nonbeliever dear clipper.. i would like 2 re-mark that these Quotes i try send from time 2 time, are an experiment 2collect sayings & maxims that may enhance wit wisdom & humor, and may correspond with the spirit of Einstein`s words: " I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is somewhat new kind of religion. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that nothing to do with mysticism. I don`t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."
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POPSLuis Borges - A new Quote (by a deeply religious non believer) " The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be “a patriot to heaven,” and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country. " —Jorge Luis Borges, “Homage to Victoria Ocampo”, in Borges en Su
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POPSOnce on this Earth .. in association to a clip i stumbled upon 2day (Nietzche on Film / clipped by abailart), i couln`t resist sending some phrases of wisdom wit & humor, of this extraordinary, also controversial and so unique man ....
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POPSHafiz 3 - Anew Quote - (by a deeply religious non believer) i have collected 9 selected Hafiz poems in 3 clips from the book "The Gift" 4 wit, wisdom & 4 your joy .. ;-) "We have not come here to take prisoners," writes Hafiz, "but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy." In "Your Mother and My Mother," the poet writes: "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. / I would like to see you living / In better conditions."
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POPSHafiz 2 - A new Quote - (by a deeply religious nonbeliever) i have collected 9 selected Hafiz poems in 3 clips from the book "The Gift" 4 wit, wisdom & 4 your joy .. ;-) This deliriously enchanting collection of 250 poems is one of the best books of 1999. Hafiz (1320-1389), according to Daniel Ladinsky (the translator) "We have not come here to take prisoners," writes Hafiz, "but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy." In "Your Mother and My Mother," the poet writes: "Fear is the cheapest room in the house. / I would like to see you living / In better conditions."
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POPSHafiz - A new Quote (of a deeply religious nonbeliever) i collected 9 selected Hafiz poems in 3 clips from the book "The Gift" 4 wit, wisdom & 4 your joy .. ;-) extracted from review in Morning Light Bookstore: " With this collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Daniel Ladinsky has brilliantly succeeded in capturing the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices. Though Hafiz is only now being discovered by many in the West, his poems have had a deeply felt influence here. Of Hafiz, Emerson said, "He fears nothing. He sees too far; he sees throughout; such is the only man I wish to... be." While Goethe enthused, "This is a madness I know well -- Hafiz has no peer."
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POPSyou Democrats would never understand !! Sally Heep: Is that fair? Alan Shore: I don't understand the question. Denny Crane: You left me, Shirley. Women don't leave Denny Crane. And for a secretary! Shirley Schmidt: It was the Secretary of Defense. Denny Crane: Massachusetts is a blue state. God has no place here. :-) ;-)
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POPSA new Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever) 1. the above quote is graven on Kazantzakis tombstone 2. " They think of me as a scholar, an intellectual, a pen-pusher. And I am none of them. When I write, my fingers get covered not in ink, but in blood. I think I am nothing more than this: an undaunted soul. " Words Nikos Kazantzakis used to describe himself in 1950.
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POPSA new Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever) Whitman : " I CELEBRATE myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you. " Taklamakan : "Desert of Death" ; "place of no return" ; "if you go in you won`t come out"
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POPSQuote from: A `deeply religious nonbeliever` this time i will comment with yet another quote :-) * There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
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POPSA Quote of: A `deeply religious nonbeliever` Dreamtime, also called the Dreaming, consists of four aspects: The beginning of all things; the life and influence of the ancestors; the way of life and death; and sources of power in life. Dreamtime consists of all four of these aspects at the same time because it is a condition beyond time and space where all things exist at once.
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