Sorry that I have been quick to post a video but slow to write a note why I selected this particular song. For a decade various parts of his song have been stuck in my brain but I could never remember enough to find it on the internet until yesterday.
Poetry helps me deal with all the tragedy I have faced in my life. I call myself The ADD Poet because I get easily lost in long or epic poems. Like the ones my exboyfriend likes to write.
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many people die with their music still in them.
Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.
Before they know it, time runs out.
Rich Mullens
"The thing that's cool about music is how unneccessary it is. Of all things, music is the most frivolous and the most useless. You can't eat it, you can't drive it, you can't live in it, you can't wear it. But your life wouldn't be worth much without it."
H. L. Mencken
Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
Rose Macaulay
"Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it-we shall not have this life again."
Voltaire
"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too."
Spike Milligan
"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine"
Oscar Fingal O'Flahartie Wills Wilde
"Experience is the name everyone gives to thier mistakes."
H.W. Beecher
"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."
Louis Armstrong
"I don't let my mouth say nothin' my head can't stand."
A.J, Cronin
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength."
Hasidic Saying
"If a man carries his own lantern, he need not fear darkness."
Mahmud Shabistari
"The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point."
Carl Jung
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."
Lao-tse
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Sunday's Child
Sunday's child is full of grace. Monday's child is fair of face. Tuesday's child is full of woe. Wednesday's child has far to go. Thursday's child works hard for a living. Friday's child is loving and giving. But the child born on Sabbath Day is bonny and happy and wise and gay.
French Quote
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Joseph Fort Newton
"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happins in us- how we can take it, what we do with it- and that is what really counts in the end."
Voltaire
"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes in a twinkling of an eye, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delights of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destoyed. I shall love you until I die."
Poet Quote
Poeta nascitur, non fit. Latin for " a poet is born, not made."