"AS virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No." So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love."
- Charlie Barone
from Bookmarklet
"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines and silver hooks."
- Charlie Barone
"ah what a trifle is a heart if once into love's hands it come"
- sally stokhamer
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902. Morton was the first serious composer of jazz, naming and popularizing the "Spanish tinge" of exotic rhythms and penning such standards as "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues
- Charlie Barone
According to wikipedia there are quite a few kinds of boxes. Which kind are you in?
- Charlie Barone
from Bookmarklet
one that holds secret dreams whose space is more grand than all the stars in heaven -
- sally stokhamer
My box is open on all sides and will remain that way.
- Buddy
"To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year... is to have knowledge of things that are nearly as eternal as any life can be." Carson
"she caught the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry' -
- sally stokhamer
"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself." Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, 1951
just picked the book off my shelf - haven't read it in a long time - she wrote about the sea as a true scientist while at the same time her poetic prose was so passionate and moving - she was ahead of her time!
- sally stokhamer
"As gregor samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a giant insect." NYC Subway Train of Thought
gregor samsa was kafka - (metamorphosis) if you play with the vowels in KAFKA and SAMSA, you'll see what kafka's done - it wasn't kafka taught me that, it was bobby -
- sally stokhamer
whether you look around or within, it's there waiting - sometimes we're surrounded by so much darkness that we just can't seem to find it but soon the sun comes out again and there it is asking us "hey where you been so long, i missed you" -
- sally stokhamer