Monday, September 5, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
All that glitters is not gold...
MOROCCO:
O hell! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
Fare you well; your suit is cold.
O hell! what have we here?
A carrion Death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.
All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
Fare you well; your suit is cold.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
World and its rioters
RK
"What is wrong with our country? People riot over a game played by millionaires, but are silent on social injustice and the eroding of our quality of life? If we could harness this energy to protest things like rising gas prices and food costs, what a real difference we could make. I’m not advocating violence or torching cars, but the exuberance and zeal could improve our society, rather than destroying property for no reason at all. Sad really, I guess we get what we deserve. Funny how the proletariat are distracted by sport, and lash out at their country men who try to improve their lot in life (i.e. Canada Post Employees) rather than the Bourgeois who control the economy. Wake up people… wake up people!”
"What is wrong with our country? People riot over a game played by millionaires, but are silent on social injustice and the eroding of our quality of life? If we could harness this energy to protest things like rising gas prices and food costs, what a real difference we could make. I’m not advocating violence or torching cars, but the exuberance and zeal could improve our society, rather than destroying property for no reason at all. Sad really, I guess we get what we deserve. Funny how the proletariat are distracted by sport, and lash out at their country men who try to improve their lot in life (i.e. Canada Post Employees) rather than the Bourgeois who control the economy. Wake up people… wake up people!”
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
A Game of Thrones
I was introduced to the series A Game of Thrones today. Game of Thrones is the first book of the series The Song of Ice and Fire.. I watched the first part of the series today and I have the book in hand as I type this. I have read all the background information I could find and I shall start reading today.
I am pretty sure it is going be enthralling just like the 52 minutes I watched today.
Cheers to fantasy and cheers to imagination.
Who is the author? Well it is George R. R. Martin. The man has been compared to Tolkien.
I am pretty sure it is going be enthralling just like the 52 minutes I watched today.
Cheers to fantasy and cheers to imagination.
Who is the author? Well it is George R. R. Martin. The man has been compared to Tolkien.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Flipped
I watched the movie flipped today. Awesome movie. It makes you ponder. It makes you think. It makes you cry and it makes you look for that complete landscape. I have the book on hold and I shall read it soon. The movie is amazing. You should watch it. I am glad I did.
Favorite quotes from the movie:
"Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
"A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic.”
Favorite quotes from the movie:
"Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
"A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic.”
Monday, April 25, 2011
A. J. Cronin
I have grown up reading A. J. Cronin’s work. He is the first doctor writer I knew about and read. I just finished reading another book of his today. “The Keys of the Kingdom,” is a good book. I found that I liked the main character. His strength of spirit and his kindness was something one wanted to emulate. I actually found myself teary eyed at the end. The one thing I find all A.J. Cronin books have in common is the ability to make one feel overwhelmed.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Royal Wedding
I am kinda excited about this wedding. I know I shouldn't jump on the bandwagon but it is nice to see a prince get married once in a while.. :)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
ALCHEMY
I lift my heart as spring lifts up
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho' it holds but pain.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.
- Sara Teasdale
A yellow daisy to the rain;
My heart will be a lovely cup
Altho' it holds but pain.
For I shall learn from flower and leaf
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.
- Sara Teasdale
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Two songs for solitude
The Crystal Gazer
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
I shall gather myself into myself again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent,
Watching the future come and the present go--
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
The Solitary
Let them think I love them more than I do,
Let them think I care, though I go alone,
If it lifts their pride, what is it to me
Who am self-complete as a flower or a stone?
It is one to me that they come or go
If I have myself and the drive of my will,
And strength to climb on a summer night
And watch the stars swarm over the hill.
My heart has grown rich with the passing of years,
I have less need now than when I was young
To share myself with every comer,
Or shape my thoughts into words with my tongue.
Sara Teasdale 1884-1933 |
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Ursla K Le Guin
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
- The left hand of darkness
“Relationships formed against the negative pressure of a society are under terrible strain; they tend to become defensive, over intense, unpeaceful. They have no room to grow.”
- The matter of Seggri (The Birthday of the World)
“(Our love) did not work very well or last very long, yet it was a great liberation for both of us, our liberation from the belief that the only communication or comonality possible between us was sexual, that an adult man and woman had nothing to join them but their genitals.”
- The matter of Seggri (The birthday of the World)
- The left hand of darkness
“Relationships formed against the negative pressure of a society are under terrible strain; they tend to become defensive, over intense, unpeaceful. They have no room to grow.”
- The matter of Seggri (The Birthday of the World)
“(Our love) did not work very well or last very long, yet it was a great liberation for both of us, our liberation from the belief that the only communication or comonality possible between us was sexual, that an adult man and woman had nothing to join them but their genitals.”
- The matter of Seggri (The birthday of the World)
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