"Flowers gathered in the morning
afternoon they blossom on
still are withered by the evening:
you can be me when I'm gone"
- Neil Gaiman, 'Sandman - The Kindly Ones'
(the contributions of others...if you wish to add something to it, contact me)
"Quoth the raven...'Nevermore'."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Night is stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings"
T.B. Aldrich - 'Day and Night'
"Look, then, into thine heart and write."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I like the stars.
It's the illusion of permanence, I think.
I mean, they're always flaring up
and caving in and going out.
But from here, I can pretend.
I can pretend that things last.
I can pretend that lives last more than moments.
Gods come, and gods go.
Mortals flicker and flash and fade.
Worlds don't last;
and stars and galaxies are transient,
fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies
and vanish into cold and dust.
But I can pretend."
Neil Gaiman, 'Sandman - Brief Lives' (Olethros)
"Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again."
Tori Amos - 'Little Earthquakes'
"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
is hung with bloom along the bough.
And stands about the woodland ride.
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my three-score years and ten,
Twenty will not come again.
And take from seventy springs a score,
It leaves me only fifty more.
and since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow."
A. E. Housman - 'Loveliest of Trees'
"Just as the nature of briars is to tear flesh,
I have proceeded through them.
'Keep the briars out', they say.
You cannot live and keep free of briars."
William Carlos Williams - 'The Ivy Crown'
"We know what we are, but we know not what we may be."
William Shakespeare - 'Hamlet' (Ophelia)
"Why not, go and get married.
For if it is a successful marriage,
you'll be happy for all time.
If it is not, then you'll become a philosopher."
Socrates
"I started out with many friends
we spent a long time talking...
I thought they meant every word they said,
but like everyone else they were stalling"
Sinead O'Connor - 'Feel So Different'
"There's a little black spot on the sun today
it's the same old thing as yesterday..."
The Police - 'King of Pain'
"Come away oh stolen child,
to the waters and the wyld
with a faery hand in hand...
for the worlds' more full of weeping
than ye can understand"
William Butler Yeats - 'Stolen Child'
"And we don't know
just where our bones will rest...
to dust i guess,
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below..."
the Smashing Pumpkins - '1979'
"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."
Frederick Nietzsche
"To be, or not to be...
that is the question.
Whether tis nobler in the mind
to suffer the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune...
Or to take arms against
a sea of troubles,
and by opposing...
end them."
William Shakespeare - 'Hamlet' (Hamlet)
"like any uncharted territory
i must seem greatly intriguing...
you speak of my love like
you've had experience
like mine before...
but this...is not allowed
you're uninvited...
an unfortunate slight."
Alanis Morrisette - 'Uninvited'
"i am not your senorita
i am not from your tribe
in the garden
i did no crime"
Tori Amos - 'Raspberry Swirl'
"thank you for hearing me
thank you for loving me
thank you for seeing me
and for not leaving me
thank you for staying with me
thank you for not hurting me
you are gentle with me
thanks for silence with me
thank you for holding me
and saying i could be
thank you for saying baby
thank you for holding me
thank you for helping me
thank you for breaking my heart
thank you for tearing me apart
now i've a strong strong heart
thank you for breaking my heart"
Sinead O'Connor - 'Thank You For Hearing Me'
"i thought i could organize freedom
how Scandinavian of me..."
Bjork - 'hunter'
"just say yes, you little arsonist
-you're so sure you can save
every hair on my chest-
just say yes, you little arsonist
you little..."
Tori Amos - 'iieee'
"Seize the Day Off."
Darin Powell
"Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation
of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish,
History licks a finger and turns the page."
Thomas Ligotti
"As of today, whatever you want to know, provided it's in
the data-net, you can now know. In other words,
there are no more secrets."
John Brunner
"one can always know a writer best through their works...
and for myself, poetry is no exception,
but instead...
a gateway to the soul."
A.K. 12/28/00
"...never to be wrong, never to make promises that break
it's like singing in the wind...
or writing on the surface of a lake...
and i wriggle like a fish caught on dry land
struggle to avoid any help at hand...
sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
my logic has drowned in a sea of emotion...
stop before you start
be still my beating heart..."
Sting - Be Still My Beating Heart
"An Irishman is never drunk as long as
He can hold onto one blade of grass and not
Fall off the face of the earth."
Irish Saying
"May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand."
Irish Saying
"Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all that we will know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you and I sigh."
—William Butler Yeats
"The problem with some people is that
when they aren’t drunk they’re sober."
—William Butler Yeats
"May you live all the days of your life."
— Jonathan Swift
"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
A full moon on a dark night,
And the road downhill all the way to your door."
Irish Saying
"You've got this strange effect on me,
and I like it...
you make my world seem white,
you make my darkness bright...
You've got this strange effect on me,
and I like it..."
- Hooverphonic, 'This Strange Effect'
"in a dark woods paved with snow living all alone
i forgot long ago what i'm looking for
firecracker lightning seed coming back to me
this is how
you made my heart a hunter"
- Delerium - Poem, 'Fallen Icons'
"I've seen it all, I've seen the dark
I've seen the brightness in one little spark.
I've seen what I chose and I've seen what I need,
And that is enough, to want more would be greed.
I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be
I've seen it all - there is no more to see!"
- Bjork, 'Dancer in the Dark - Selmasongs'
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