A Love Poem…

“Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find
A thousand regions of your mind
Yet undiscovered.  Travel them and be
Expert in home-cosmography”.-Henry David Thoreau

Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.

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The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don’t know others,
Others don’t know me.
By not-knowing we follow nature’s course.

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which exists independently of visual references to the world.[1] Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. [...]

“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.“-Jeremy Irons
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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.“-Aristotle

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Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away!
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life’s busy throng,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea
Mermaids are [...]

“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.“-Giacomo Casanova
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“For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be.”-Giacomo Casanova
The future is a time period commonly understood to contain all events that have yet to occur.[1] It is the opposite of the past, and is the time after the [...]

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This cartoon by Alex Gregory, which ran in the New Yorker on Sept. 12 is making the rounds online.
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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er [...]

“Ik voel in mijzelf een zo stralend leven,dat ik een wereld zou kunnen verlichten,en toch zit ik in een soort mineraal opgesloten.”-Balzac

“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question [...]

“Hallelujah”
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the [...]

‘Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the thing of it,as in the feel of it…”-Stanley Kubrick
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Taranto Sport is an Italian football club, based in Taranto, Apulia. The club was founded in 1906 and refounded in 2004. Taranto currently plays in Lega Pro Prima Divisione, having last been in Serie B in 1993. The team’s colors are red and blue.
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8 years after the establishment of ARIS Athletic Club, the basketball section of the team was formed.  Just as in football, ARIS basketball was destined to make the citizens of Thessaloniki proud.
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ONE
you
PLUS
and
ONE
me
EQUALS
so
TWO
free
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Family Guy Sings!, a new stage show featuring the entire cast of Seth MacFarlane’s Emmy Award-winning  animated television series “Family Guy,” promises to bring the house down at New York’s legendary  Carnegie Hall on Monday, November 24 & Tuesday, November 25.
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“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.“-Oscar Wilde
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De gevoeligste slaan vaak de hand aan zichzelf
om maar te ontkomen
en zij die achterblijven
kunnen nooit helemaal begrijpen
waarom iemand ooit
aan hen
zou
willen
ontkomen.

Messalina,serving as a prostitute under the pseudonym of Lisisca.

Roman sources claim that Messalina used sex to enforce her power and control politicians.

she had a brothel under an assumed name and organised orgies for upper class women.

http://www.roman-emperors.org/valmess.htm

Someone told me today  that I was lazy. It did me good. I should like such a warning every morning upon awakening: but they cannot understand me nor can they understand life the way is see it and feel it.-oblomov
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Arguably Buckley’s most famous work, this was originally written and recorded by Leonard Cohen in 1984 on his album Various Positions.
The song is about love which has soured and gone stale. Cohen used a lot of religious imagery, including references to some of the more notorious women in the bible.
Cohen: “Hallelujah is a Hebrew word [...]

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Je ziet ze niet vaak
want waar de massa is
daar zijn zij
niet
ze zijn ook niet met velen,
die vreemde figuren
maar zij produceren
de paar goede schilderijen
de paar goede boeken
en andere kunstwerken
en de besten
onder die vreemde lieden
produceren misschien wel niets
zij zijn
zelf een
schilderij
zelf een
boek
zelf muziek
zelf een
kunstwerk
soms denk ik
dat ik
ze
zie-een
oude man
die op een
bepaalde manier
op een bepaalde
bank
zit
of
een bepaalde manier
waarmee
een jonge vrouw
in de [...]

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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what can we do?
at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
some understanding and, at times, acts of
courage
but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn’t
have too much.
it is like a large animal deep in sleep and
almost nothing can awaken it.
when activated it’s best at brutality,
selfishness, unjust judgments, murder.
what can we do with [...]

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one [...]

Oblomov.
By Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1812-1891.
Translated from the Russian by C. J. Hogarth
Notes by translator.
Reprint of the 1915 ed. published by Macmillan, New York.
ISBN 0-8376-0451-6 (Robert Bentley, Cambridge, Mass.)
First published in Russian 1858
First published in English 1915
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
PZ3.G5875Ob 1979 [PG3337.G6] 891.7′3′3 79-19061

This edition (oblomov.htm) is in one big file (about [...]

“If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is it’s own excuse for being.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Directed by
Luchino Visconti

Produced by
Goffredo Lombardo

Written by
Luchino Visconti
Story:
Suso Cecchi d’Amico

Starring
Alain Delon
Renato Salvatori
Annie Girardot
Katina Paxinou

Music by
Nino Rota

Cinematography
Giuseppe Rotunno

Editing by
Mario Serandrei

Release date(s)
Italy: 6 September 1960
US: 26 June 1961

Running time
177 minutes

Country
Italy / France

Language
Italian

“The avererage man is more interested in a women who is interested in him than he is in a woman”-Oblomov

“I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a women’s bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they’re not well manicured, you’ve got to wonder what the rest of her is like. I don’t want to get in bed with somebody and feel her gnarly feet.”-Oblomov
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world.Most people exist,that is all.”-Oscar Wilde

“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue… gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”-Confusius
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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”-Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Well,I’ve been a fan of videogames all my life.Its just that….Oh well….
Oblomov

“The supreme object of life is to live.Few people live.It is true life only to realize one’s own perfection,to make one’s every dream a reality”-Oscar Wilde

“Makers of empire,they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones”-Herbert Kaufman

“Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy.  It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”-Lou Krieger

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“I hated the self created in her by others. Others feel because of her; and because of her, others write poetry; because of her, others hate; others, like Henry, love her in spite of themselves.”
Anais Nin

Quote: (to himself:) “Wile E. Coyote. Su-u-u-uper Ge-e-enius.”

“I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. “-Anthony Trollope

Totti and Cassano….

“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.”-Antisthenes
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