The winds that blow
Ask them, which leaf of the tree
Will be the next to go.
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Martin Gardner
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.
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Saint Augustine
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die
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Roger McGough
The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then -
Marianne Moore
a definition of poetry
“imaginary gardens with real toads in them”
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Samuel Beckett
I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.