"We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest."

--

Source : 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' (1913) 'Prologue'

James Elroy Flecker

#Song Quotes #Stars Quotes #Heart Quotes

“John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.”
“It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.”
“Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.”

Source : Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.49, Penguin
“I want a president who'll look out for American interests. Every treaty we sign has a provision that a president of the United States , if he or she concludes that it's no longer in the interest of the country should step back from it.”
“No matter what kind of day I've had at school, I always look forward to golf.”
“Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.”
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

You may also like: