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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Moonlight
is sculpture,
sunlight
is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American writer (via cosmicowlchild)
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels
turning in the cages of
our personality
and get into the forests again,
we shall shiver with cold and fright
but things will happen to us
so that we don’t know ourselves.
Cool, unlying life will rush in,
and passion will make our bodies taut with power,
we shall stamp our feet with new power
and old things will fall down,
we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist (via cosmicowlchild)
“All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.”
—John Fowles
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“A poet is a world enclosed in a [person].” —Victor Hugo
It’s thundering.
The thunder matches my rising Kundalini.
The rain does too.
Everything does.Everything is me.
poetry
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Charles Bukowski (via like30ninjas)
(Source: breakfromlife777)
This morning the NYPD raided Occupy Wall Street and destroyed everything left behind by protesters.
The police burned 5,000 books and a tent that was donated by an author.
Occupy Wall Street has retaken the park and 1,500+ people have attended the largest General Assembly yet.
The protesters are working on rebuilding the library. This is what they have so far.
They burned books?! WTF.
They burned books?!? Oh hell no.
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won’t stomach them for a minute.”
“Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”
“Remember the firemen are rarely necessary. The public stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but its a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line. So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. Can you dance faster than the White Clown, shout louder than ‘Mr. Gimmick’ and the parlor ‘families’? If you can, you’ll win your way, Montag. In any event, you’re a fool. People are having fun.”
-Fahrenheit 451
(Love the quote)
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew (via darkcanuck)
NYPD destroyed 5,000 books at #occupylibrary, as well as tent donated by author and performer Patti Smith, which had been used to protect those books. The image of NYPD officers destroying books - tearing down a library - is one which should spark outrage around the world.
The image of NYPD officers destroying books - tearing down a library - is one which should spark outrage around the world. It is no wonder that the cowardly policemen conducted their raid under the cover of darkness and by suppressing the media so that there would be few or no images of their misconduct.
A culture which would destroy books is a culture which has truly become sickened, twisted, and corrupt.
