"But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous."

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Source : "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" l. 20 (1916)

Alan Seeger

#Spring Quotes #Years Quotes #Midnight Quotes

“Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“The purpose exceeds the pain.”
“Regrets are so far from reality.”
“Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.”
“Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.”
“In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.”
“None of us know our real names.”
“In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.”

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