"follow one's own dream
but possessions and concession
are not often what they seem"
"you can't
make anything go
anywhere
it just
happens"
"it is on the
space where there is
nothing that
the usefulness
of the wheel depends"
"ain't gonna learn what
you don't wanna know
"
"too much time one hand counts
while other fist defends number
"
"god loves all the flowers even
the wild ones that grow
on the side of the highway"
"the world won't be made
safer by creating
barriers between people"
"by the time you
get close to the answers
it’s nearly all over"
"an everlasting vision of the ever changing view
a wondrous woven magic in bits of blue
and gold a tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold"
"weeds are flowers
too once you get
to know them"
"the soul should always
stand ajar, ready to welcome
the ecstatic experience"
"the easier it looks the hotter
it hooks there ain't no such
thing as easy money"
"you take delight not in
a city's seven or seventy wonders
but in the answer it gives to
a question of yours"
"it seems that every time
i stick my neck out i
get my foot into something else"
"none are more hopelessly
enslaved than those
who falsely believe
they are free."
"it was not the thorn
bending to the honeysuckles but
the honeysuckles embracing the thorn"
"you can't
win you can't
break even you can't
even get out of the game"
"the blues, it's not just
about bad times it's
about the healing spirit"
"if you don't
like my ocean don't
fish in my sea stay
out of my valley and let
my mountain be. "
"you're in pretty
good shape for
the shape
you are in"
"as a kid, I played
a lot of one-on-none"
"being an intellectual creates
a lot of questions and no answers"
"we live in the flicker
-may it last as long as the old
earth keeps rolling! but darkness
was here yesterday"
"you take your problems to a
god, but what you really need
is for the god to take you
to the inside of you."
"the spider resumes
the rhythm of his golden
thread and all of these
spirit voices rule the night"
"it is almost
worth going away
because it is so
lovely coming back."
"you can't master
time, but you
have to work your
hardest to
manage it."
"Outside, July is on sabbatical.
A few birds call, half-heartedly, it seems to me. The fog
keeps right on rolling though the day."
"you have to think not
of the groove but of the dream"
"sometimes you have to
play a long time
to be able to
play like yourself"
"i can play the blues myself yeah
i'ma give every disc jockey the
blues across the country if he don't
dig this he got a hole in his soul"
"i don't know
anything with certainty, but seeing the stars
makes me dream"
"and for ages men had gazed upwards
as he was gazing at birds in flight the colonnade above
him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant
on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur"
"i do not weep
at the world i am
too busy sharpening
my oyster knife."
"i like trees
because they seem more
resigned to the way
they have to live"
"it makes me
feel better each
time it begins
calling me home
hickory wind"
"let my ashes float down
the Green River let my soul roll on up
to the Rochester dam I'll be halfway
to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
just five miles away from wherever I am"
"And when you are emptied
for sleep, you
are not. And when
you are filled with
sleep, you never were"
"there is no folly
of the beast of the earth
which is not infinitely
outdone by the madness of man"
"i picked up a
song that I've known
all along keep away
from what's wrong and
you begin to get strong"
"ginsberg's theorem: u
can't win u can't break even
u can't even get out of the game"
"my use of lang
uage is part
and parcel
of my mess
age"
"I been a long
time leaving but I'm
going to be
a long time gone"
"It was a world alive, always
changing and moving; and if you knew where to
look, you could see it, some almost
imperceptible, like the motion
of the stars across the sky"
"you wanna
fly, you got to
give up the
shit that weighs
you down.
"
"after a while we learn to keep
our heads high and our eyes open
when difficulties arise and we accept
our defeats with the grace of an adult
and not the grief of a child"
"he had kicked himself loose
of the earth. counfound the man! he had kicked
the very earth to pieces. he was alone, and I before
him did not know whether I stood on the ground
or floated in the air - but what's the good?""
"will the wind ever
remember the names it
has blown in the past and
with its crutch, its old age
and its wisdom it whispers
no, this will be the last"
"l(a le
af fa
lls)one
liness"
"I start in
the middle of a
sentence and
move both
directions at once"
"some people never
go crazy what truly
horrible lives
they must lead."
"somethin' wrong cause my mind is
fading ghetto blastin' disintegrating rock
n' roll, know what I'm saying? everywhere
i look there's a devil in waiting"
"The trouble
with life isn't
that there
is no answer, it's
that there are
so many answers."
"yes, it sure has been a long,
hard climb train wheels runnin thru
the back of my memory when I ran on the
hilltop following a pack of wild geese"
"a song and a stone and a
feather of feeling now dead
and gone in this month of love
this poem this poem is a silver feather and
the sun-god glinting green hills breathing"
"We have an unknown
distance to run; an unknown
river yet to explore. What falls
there are, we know not; what
rocks beset the channel, we know
not; what walls rise over the river,
we know not; Ah, well! we may
conjecture many things"
"Let it be the dream it
used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the
plain seeking a home where he himself is free."
"let me die in this
old uniform in which
i fought my battles may
god forgive me for
even having put on another."
"A word is dead when
it is said, some say. I say
it just begins to live that day"
"nobody sees a flower
really; it is so small. we
haven't time, and to see takes
time - like to have a
friend takes time. "
"Our greatest
foes, and whom
we must chiefly
combat, are within."
"You can't really be
strong until you can see
a funny side to things."
"since you have preserved my
narration," said he, "I would
not that a mutilated one should
go down to posterity."
"life has got a
habit of not standing
hitched. you got to ride it
like you find it. you got
to change with it."
"The wearier
we are, the more
splendid the training."
"Reformation, like
education, is a
journey, not
a destination."
"his time is
not my time but
I have known
him in a
time gone"
"the sound of the whole
thing in general when
there are no specific
near-sounds is of course
sea-like but also like the
sound of the living structure"
"but imma gonna stare
in the sun let the rays shine in
my eyes imma gonna take
just one step more"
"a house is not a
home unless it contains
food and fire for the mind
as well as the body"
"Without music to decorate it, time
is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or
dates by which bills must be paid."
"The way I see it, he said You just
can't win it Everybody's in it for their own
gain You can't please 'em all There's
always somebody calling you down"
"There was still a straight-out
blues but still a blues, and
still straight out.
"
"when I let
go of what I
am, I become what
I might be."
"Our strong
suit is what we do,
and our audience"
"I'd like to be an old man and really know. I wonder
if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount
each man can understand. I thought I knew about so many things
that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time."
"once out of nature I shall never take my
bodily form from any natural thing, but such a form
as grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold and
gold enamelling to keep a drowsy emperor awake;"
"Do I contradict
myself? Very well
then I contradict
myself, (I am large, I
contain multitudes.)"
"The breaking
of a wave cannot
explain the
whole sea."
"But it left something with
him; as long as the hummingbird
had not abandoned the land, some
where there were still flowers, and
they could all go on."
"Nobody owns
life, but any
one who can
pick up a frying
pan owns death."
"Who would return? To be lost again? I went for walks.
I went for walks. I went for walks and on one of these,
the last I took in Havasu, regained everything
that seemed to be ebbing away."
"The art of healing
comes from nature, not
from the physician."
"the fear of death follows from
the fear of life. A man who lives fully is
prepared to die at any time"
"the best way to find
yourself is to lose yourself
in the service of others"
"This is the sense of
the desert hills, that there is room
enough and time enough."
"There is only one way to achieve
happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is
to have either a clear conscience or none at all"
"this maker's gone, or hidden,
but one thing is sure:
something worked all night
creating something bigger
than itself"
"in a time of
universal deceit - tell
ing the truth is a revol
utionary act."
"my use of lang
uage is part
and parcel
of my mess
age"
"i try to do the right thing at the right
time. they may just be little things, but
usually they make the difference
between winning and losing."
"music does a lot of
things for a lot of people
it's transporting, for sure it can
take you right back, years back, to the very
moment certain things happened in your life"
"I roamed & rambled & followed
my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond
deserts All around me a voice was sounding"
"Come fool; be
patient. Life
is not
logic."
December 2016 | ||
"We have all a better guide
|
-J. Austen |
November 2016 | ||
"I'm not wise, but the beg
|
-T. Turner |
October 2016 | ||
"day after day, day
|
-S.T. Coleridge |
September 2016 | ||
"Kansas City style, Chicago
|
-J.R. Morton |
August 2016 | ||
"I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million
|
-Chuck D |
July 2016 | ||
"A child who does not play is not
|
-P. Neruda |
June 2016 | ||
"A lot of times they don’t want
|
-W. Jennings |
May 2016 | ||
"oh I'll twine with my mingle and waving black hair
|
-M.M. Carter |
April 2016 | ||
"Animals have a much better attitude to life |
-E.L Harris |
March 2016 | ||
"If I favor one certain rapper or one |
-F. Flav |
February 2016 | ||
"But he had chosen solitude and the company |
-T. Morrison |
January 2016 | ||
I have hope in people, |
-J. Baez |
December 2015 | ||
And the things you can't re |
-T. Waits |
November 2015 | ||
"I'm in a half-way house on a one-way |
-R.L. Jones |
October 2015 | ||
"If dreams were light |
-J. Prine |
September 2015 | ||
"As I am. Was and am. And |
-A. Pepper |
August 2015 | ||
"You've got to have something |
-B. Holiday |
July 2015 | ||
"What's right |
-R. Williams |
June 2015 | ||
"We listened to each other and the interest was |
-B. Keeshan |
May 2015 | ||
"baby, got a bird honey |
-T. Mahal |
April 2015 | ||
"If you don't like my |
-M. Rainey |
March 2015 | ||
"Love always brings
|
-V. Van Gogh |
February 2015 | ||
"the creatures of the air have their |
-J. Joyce |
January 2015 | ||
"Always walk |
-D. Matthews |
December 2014 | ||
"Music
is the only
religion |
-F. Zappa |
November 2014 | ||
"As I get older, I get |
-N. Young |
October 2014 | ||
"I don't know where jazz is |
-T. Monk |
September 2014 | ||
"How could someone posess a star?
But you may |
-J. Rodgers |
August 2014 | ||
"Chaos in the mid |
-S. Martin |
July 2014 | ||
"Pick me up, gimme some food to |
-B. Hansen |
June 2014 | ||
"You always have to remember - no |
-C. Lauper |
May 2014 | ||
"Life has meaning only
in the |
-S. Wonder |
April 2014 | ||
"I rambled all |
-M. Waters |
March 2014 | ||
"If you hand me a |
-E. Clapton |
February 2014 | ||
"Bitten off more than he can |
-J. Joyce |
January 2014 | ||
"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions |
-J. Joplin |
December 2013 | ||
"Music is a higher rev |
-L.v.Beethoven |
November 2013 | ||
"God took the seeds of |
-F. Dostoevsky |
October 2013 | ||
"what i like be |
-B. Weir |
September 2013 | ||
"And when you are emptied for |
-W. Faulkner |
August 2013 | ||
"I don't think about |
-J.L. Hooker |
July 2013 | ||
"It was not |
-E. Bronte |
June 2013 | ||
"Ginsberg's theorem:
|
-A. Ginsberg |
May 2013 | ||
"The art of art, the glory
|
-W. Whitman |
April 2013 | ||
"The woods would be |
-J. Audubon |
March 2013 | ||
"It was a world alive, always |
-L.M.Silko |
February 2013 | ||
"a tapestry of rich and royal hue |
-C. King |
"Come fo |
-R. Jeffers |
December 2012 | ||
"We live in the flicker -- may it last |
-J. Conrad |
November 2012 | ||
"even castles made |
-J. Hendrix |
October 2012 | ||
"Our greatest foes, |
-Cervantes |
September 2012 | ||
"And above all, watch with glittering |
-R. Dahl |
August 2012 | ||
"Somebody has to do something, |
-J. Garcia |
July 2012 | ||
"They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, |
-E. Hemingway |
June 2012 | ||
"We taste and feel |
-W.B. Yeats |
May 2012 | ||
"Never discourage anyone... |
-Plato |
April 2012 | ||
"And I forget to do The little ordinary things |
-Albert King |
March 2012 | ||
"As to when I shall visit |
-Everett Ruess |
February 2012 | ||
"SONG FOR LANGSTON |
-Willie Perdomo |
January 2012 | ||
"Some are |
-Benjamin Franklin |
December 2011 | ||
"The soul should |
-Emily Dickinson |
November 2011 | ||
"Making
your |
-Georgia O'Keefe |
October 2011 | ||
"To name some |
-Amiri Baraka |
September 2011 | ||
"I’ve found you |
-John Coltrane |
August 2011 | ||
"To fall in love |
-Jorge Luis Borges |
July 2011 | ||
"Life has got a habit |
-Woody Guthrie |
June 2011 | ||
"I hear and I forget. |
-Confucius |
May 2011 | ||
"Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb |
-Rob Zimmerman |
April 2011 | ||
"Walk away quietly |
-John Muir |
March 2011 | ||
"Today you are You, |
-Theodor Geisel |
February 2011 | ||
"Utility & beauty are inextricably |
-Edward Abbey |
January 2011 | ||
"I don't exactly |
-J.D. Salinger |
December 2010 | ||
"I'll wager at the very end a body realizes |
-Truman Capote |
November 2010 | ||
"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. |
-Georgia O'Keeffe |
October 2010 | ||
"in time of daffodils(who know |
-e.e. cummings |
September 2010 | ||
"We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
|
-Lao Tzu |
August 2010 | ||
"But Schopenhauer's rage was so, |
-Charles Bukowski |
July 2010 | ||
"I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now, |
-Steve Goodman |
June 2010 | ||
"The trouble with life isn't |
-Ruth Benedict |
May 2010 | ||
"Sometimes you have to play |
-Miles Davis |
April 2010 | ||
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, |
-John Muir |
March 2010 | ||
"Dusk: the bird on the fence |
-Jack Kerouac |
February 2010 | ||
"My old mule, He's got a grin on his face. |
-Langston Hughes |
January 2010 | ||
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." | -Ben Franklin |
December 2009 | ||
"Who are they for? Friends. Not necesarily neighbor friends: indeed, the larger share are intended for persons we've met maybe once, perhaps not at all. People who have struck our fancy" |
-Truman Capote |
November 2009 | ||
"Because I have got a thing That's unique and new To prove it I'll have The last laugh on you 'Cause instead of one head I got two And you know two heads are better than one. " |
-Joni Mitchell |
October 2009 | ||
"All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." | -Paul Simon |
September 2009 | ||
"It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages." | -W.C. Williams |
August 2009 | ||
"I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other." | -Mary Shelley |
July 2009 | ||
"But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure." | -H.D. Thoreau |
June 2009 | ||
"The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed--would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever." | -George Orwell |
May 2009 | ||
"I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person." | -Michael Palin |
April 2009 | ||
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." | -William Shakespeare |
March 2009 | ||
"Everywhere he looked, he saw a world made of stories, the long ago, time immemorial stories, as old Grandma called them. It was a world alive, always changing and moving; and if you knew where to look, you could see it, some almost imperceptible, like the motion of the stars across the sky." | "Ceremony" -Leslie Marmon Silko |
Feburary 2009 | ||
---|---|---|
"Saying something is pitch blackis like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper?Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow." | "Song of Solomon" - Toni Morrison |
January 2009 | ||
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"To say what you think is always a luxury and often a curse; for since you're only human, like the rest of us, your thoughts, a large part of the time, are doubtless wrong." | Benedict Arundel in "Arundel" |
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." -Willa Cather
"But no more of this blubbering now,
we are a going a-whaling,
and there is plenty of yet to come.
Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet,
and see what sort of place this "Spouter" may be." Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye" -John Prine
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." -Roald Dahl
"From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the bright side of the road." -Van Morrison
"When does the butterfly read
what flies written on its wings?
So it can understand its itinerary,
which letters does the bee know?
And with which numbers does the ant
subtract its dead soldiers?
What are cylclones called
when they stand still?" -P. Neruda
"Maybe at last, being but a broken man,
I must be satisfied with my heart, although
Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what." -W.B Yeats
"Come fool be patient; life is not logic." -Robinson Jeffers
2008
"He had kicked himself loose of the earth. Confound the man! he had kicked the very earth to pieces. He was alone, and I before him did not know whether I stood on the ground or floated in the air." -Joseph Conrad
"How blind and unreasoning
and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature
--most of them in fact!"
-Mark Twain
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory." -S.T. Coleridge
"Bent as you are from straining
against the bitter horizontals of
a north wind, -- there below you
how easily the long yellow notes
of poplars flow upward in a descending
scale, each note secure in its own
posture-- singularly woven." - from W.C. Williams' Trees
"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." -Herman Melville
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide." -E. Bronte
"Asshole of the Universe into which I disappear-- Elastic Hand that spoke
Crane-- Music that passes into the phonograph of years from another
Millienium-- Ear of the buildings of NY--
That which I believe-- have seen-- seek endlessly in leaf dog eye-- fault
always, lack-- which makes me think--
Desire that created me, Desire hid my body, Desire all Man know
Death, Desire surpassing the Babylonian possible world" from Ginsberg's Magic Psalm
"Nature is the art of God" -Dante
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." -A. Leopold
"I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling." -The Dharma Bums, Kerouac
"Wanna fly you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." -Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
"We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become
confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from."
-R. Jeffers
"But I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are"-
"Just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes."
-Buddy's friend from "A Christmas Memory" by T. Capote.
"The apostle Thomas said he would not believe until he saw,
and when he saw, he said: "My Lord and my God!"
Was it a miracle that made him believe? Most likely not.
He believed only because he wanted to believe, and possibly he already believed
in the secret recesses of his being while he was saying, "Except I shall see,
I will not believe."" -Dostoevsky
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We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing
That the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing
That the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it is on these spaces where there is nothing
That the usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore just as we take advantage of what is,
We should recognize the usefulness of what is not.
-Lao Tzu