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Post by StormInateacup on Sept 2, 2012 10:08:18 GMT -5
“When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos” ― Robert Graves, Poems 1965-1968 I like Robert Graves,I have both volumes of his work on Greek myths...same Robert Graves? Yep. The self same one. Goodbye to All That, I Clavdivs, all the classical mythology stuff and sublime poetry. He was best mates with Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon...they were those famed "War Poets" from the Western Front- he's a freakin' genius.
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Post by StormInateacup on Sept 2, 2012 10:53:32 GMT -5
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
Haile Selassie
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Post by Random Panther on Sept 2, 2012 12:02:22 GMT -5
The Greek Myths Vol. 1&2 isn't poetry,it's a refrence book ''drawing on an enormous range of scourses,bringing together all the elements of every myth in simple narrative form,supplying detailed cross refrences and indexes''.
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Post by StormInateacup on Sept 2, 2012 12:24:27 GMT -5
Yeah I know. He'a an Oxford educated classical scholar as well as a poet and novelist. A real Renaissance man.
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Post by StormInateacup on Sept 3, 2012 11:35:53 GMT -5
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Post by StormInateacup on Sept 3, 2012 11:38:34 GMT -5
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Post by StormInateacup on Sept 3, 2012 11:44:33 GMT -5
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Post by BadBeast on Sept 5, 2012 4:09:29 GMT -5
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.” - Kurt Vonnegut
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Post by BadBeast on Sept 5, 2012 4:10:28 GMT -5
"I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger."
~ Winston Churchill
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Post by BadBeast on Sept 5, 2012 4:28:37 GMT -5
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity."
--Thomas Paine--
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Post by BadBeast on Sept 5, 2012 11:42:14 GMT -5
"I want peace - and I will do anything to make peace! It is not too late yet. I will go to the limit of the possible as long as the sacrifice and dignity of the German nation allows it. I know of better things than waging war. If I merely think about the loss of German blood - the best always fall, the bravest and the ones willing to be sacrificed; their task should be to exemplify the nation.
“I do not need to make a name by war-mongering like Churchill. I would like to make my name as a steward of the German people. I want to secure its unity and Lebensraum, to achieve National Socialism and shape the environment – add to it the new rebuilding of the German cities according to modern knowledge. I would like that the people will be happy there and be proud of their town, their lebensraum, and nation.”
And Churchill's response?
""I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger."
~ Winston Churchill ~
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Post by BadBeast on Sept 5, 2012 11:52:39 GMT -5
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life" ~Robert Heinlein~
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Post by BadBeast on Sept 5, 2012 12:16:05 GMT -5
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. ~Frank Herbert~
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Post by BadBeast on Sept 5, 2012 12:23:38 GMT -5
"If one were to take the Bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the Bible seriously, one must be already mad" ~Aleister Crowley~
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Post by BadBeast on Oct 12, 2012 9:05:49 GMT -5
Here's a response from Warren Ellis, (one of my favourite Authors) on his where he gets his inspiration from.
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