Post by glowlynose on Dec 6, 2009 6:18:58 GMT -5
At my school, it's a widely accepted belief that your favorite quotes say a good deal about who you are. This is an interesting concept, at least to me.
I thought I'd post some of my favorite quotes/lyrics/excerpts here. Feel free to do the same, and even (novel concept coming) discuss what some of these quotes can say about our personalities.
"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
- Archibald MacLeish (No offense to our non-American FoF-ers, or course.)
"No, it is not an 'accident,' Colleen. It might not have been planned for, or forseen, or even wanted, but that doesn't make it an accident. Giving life is never an accident."
- Me, from a dream I had
"Do not mistake concidence for fate, John."
- Eko from Lost
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
- Edgar Allen Poe
"Only the heart knows what is precious."
- Dostoyevsky
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone."
- Orson Welles
"I stand amid the roar of a surf tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand grains of the golden sand.
How few! Yet how they creep,
Through my fingers to the deep.
While I weep, while I weep!
Oh God! Can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp?
Oh God! Can I not save One from the pitiless wave?"
- Edgar Allen Poe : A Dream Within A Dream
"Unbeing dead is not being alive."
- E.E. Cummings
"Between the mutinous brave burning of the leaves
And winter’s covering of our hearts with his deep snow
We are alone: there are no evening birds"
- Archibald MacLeish: Immortal Autumn
"No, my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within, paper lanterns among the dark trees."
- Unknown
"'Cause if I'm restless, then why do I, I want nothing but to rest my soul. And I don't get this and I know why; you see, sometimes things are just beyond control. I don't mind, but I'm not surprised to find that you do."
- Relient K: Curl Up and Die
"The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't need to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy."
- Unknown
"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay: Dirge Without Music
I thought I'd post some of my favorite quotes/lyrics/excerpts here. Feel free to do the same, and even (novel concept coming) discuss what some of these quotes can say about our personalities.
"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
- Archibald MacLeish (No offense to our non-American FoF-ers, or course.)
"No, it is not an 'accident,' Colleen. It might not have been planned for, or forseen, or even wanted, but that doesn't make it an accident. Giving life is never an accident."
- Me, from a dream I had
"Do not mistake concidence for fate, John."
- Eko from Lost
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
- Edgar Allen Poe
"Only the heart knows what is precious."
- Dostoyevsky
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone."
- Orson Welles
"I stand amid the roar of a surf tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand grains of the golden sand.
How few! Yet how they creep,
Through my fingers to the deep.
While I weep, while I weep!
Oh God! Can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp?
Oh God! Can I not save One from the pitiless wave?"
- Edgar Allen Poe : A Dream Within A Dream
"Unbeing dead is not being alive."
- E.E. Cummings
"Between the mutinous brave burning of the leaves
And winter’s covering of our hearts with his deep snow
We are alone: there are no evening birds"
- Archibald MacLeish: Immortal Autumn
"No, my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within, paper lanterns among the dark trees."
- Unknown
"'Cause if I'm restless, then why do I, I want nothing but to rest my soul. And I don't get this and I know why; you see, sometimes things are just beyond control. I don't mind, but I'm not surprised to find that you do."
- Relient K: Curl Up and Die
"The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't need to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy."
- Unknown
"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.
Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.
The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay: Dirge Without Music
We have a cbox again and we're opening the place up as a closed, members only rp