"Being Dead means very light housekeeping"

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Source : Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (1991). “Black Mirror: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte”, Station Hill Press

Roger Gilbert-Lecomte

#Mean Quotes #Light Quotes #Housekeeping Quotes

“There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.”
“People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.”
“The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.”
“Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? Itâ€™s time for an awakening.”
“Meditation is culture.”
“If one class of society is obliged, in order to live, to take any price for its services, while another can abstain from such action thanks to resources at its disposal which, however, are not necessarily due to any social superiority, the second has an unjust advantage over the first at law. In other words, there cannot be rich and poor a birth without there being unjust contracts.”
“There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March”
“I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.”

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