Posts Tagged ‘poetry’

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

Lenin

November 4, 2010

***************

Socialism is the
electrification of
real democracy

***************

Capitalism is
a mysterious product
of social decay

***************

Materialism
will debauch the mind and crush
the human spirit

***************

An enslaved press ruled
by an oligarchy is
a crime against God

***************

The basic evil
of money-bags politics:
lies told to excess

***************

Not every Congress
has revolutionary
possibilities

***************

Fascism is despair
lifting itself up by its
own backward bootstraps

***************

Intellectual
development requires some
knowledge of the truth

***************

While the ruling class
exists there can be no road
but self-sacrifice

***************

Politics cannot
be taken seriously
for five hundred years

***************

Propaganda is
the craftiness of scoundrels
plus “free” expression

***************

Spiritual death
is the monopoly stage
of clerical rule

***************

The spinelessness of
the Democratic Party
is beyond all hope

***************

The machinery
of wage slavery runs on
tortured currency

***************

Tags:, , , , , , ,
Posted in Lenin | Comments Off on Lenin

Kafka

October 30, 2010

***************

You do not need to
leave your room to roll in the
stench of ecstasy

***************

God is never to
be doubted . . . but the Bible
cannot be believed

***************

If Atlas were to
drop the Earth we could all find
perfect happiness

***************

A fresh outburst of
beauty is worthless without
the refuge of vice

***************

Self-observation
is a hollow, boring act
of complacency

***************

Whatever distracts
from perpetual despair
is born of evil

***************

Take an ax to the
Tree of Knowledge . . . The serpent
will writhe at your feet

***************

In the fight between
Don Quixote and the world,
Sancho Panza wins

***************

The transmigration
of souls is as comfortless
as the infinite

***************

Kiss your guilt as you
would kiss a woman, then creep
away and use drugs

***************

Tags:, , , , , ,
Posted in Kafka | Comments Off on Kafka

Kandinsky

October 18, 2010

***************

Everything starts from
an empty white canvas . . . The
soul is a black dot

***************

Abstract painting is
the autonomous hammer
of the sacred eye

***************

Subdued blue is a
heavy cross to bear . . . A grief
lovelier than flame

***************

Existence is an
internal necessity
justified by art

***************

Only the artist
can grasp the vibrating light
of mystical sin

***************

True art is hardly
human . . . It’s the expression
of a stillborn child

***************

Color burns with a
mysterious power . . . I
fear its blind demands

***************

Civilization
is made more frightening by
adequate poets

***************

There is only one
road to follow . . . It won’t take
you to the next world

***************

It is the artist’s
duty to violate his
essential being

***************

Sunday is a task
too painful to bear . . . It will
damage your objects

***************

Music is breath . . . Its
enigmatic echoes are
full of silent chords

***************

Tags:, , , , , ,
Posted in Kandinsky | Comments Off on Kandinsky

Tristan Tzara

October 13, 2010

***************

Thought is the egg of
human imbecility . . .
The head is useless

***************

Tenderness is an
armadillo that can hiss
like a glockenspiel

***************

Butterflies are made
in the mouth of God as an
insult to the air

***************

Journalism is an
arthritic virgin riding
a tottering ear

***************

Spontaneity
can be invented only
by an art turbine

***************

The spiral river
of incoherence is straight
as a revolver

***************

I do not wish to
fathom the normal or the
work of professors

***************

Be attuned to the
gleam of constellations and
the arc of hiccups

***************

For myself, I have
an unquestionable faith
in quack egoism

***************

Literature is
a microbe that will destroy
all seriousness

***************

Enthusiasm for
algebraic formulas
is a tragic state

***************

Morals were betrothed
in hell to the law . . . Explode,
don’t conciliate

***************

Tags:, , , , , ,
Posted in Tristan Tzara | Comments Off on Tristan Tzara

Confucius

October 4, 2010

***************

The book salesman should
be honored because he knows
the books that will sell

***************

There are three methods
to gaining wisdom . . . All of
them are perilous

***************

At the center of
your being is a diamond
with a perfect flaw

***************

Choose a job you love
and you are gently shouldered
off the stage of life

***************

If you look into
your own heart and find nothing
there, plant a love seed

***************

Never give a sword
to a virtuous man . . . Give
him a book instead

***************

God is a tiger . . .
There is nothing to be feared
more than a tiger

***************

Do not impose on
God what you yourself do not
desire to practice

***************

The wickedness of
an oppressive government
is the zeal of wealth

***************

A superior
man who can’t dance will never
achieve true knowledge

***************

The man whose teachers
are anger and hate has the
soul of a pebble

***************

Tags:, , , , ,
Posted in Confucius | Comments Off on Confucius

Ornette Coleman

September 18, 2010

***************

The saxophone is
beyond democratic . . . It’s
food for the planet

***************

Jazz is the only
music where mistakes are the
right information

***************

Human existence:
the same note played night after
night, differently

***************

Three-dimensional
artistic expression can
cure mental illness

***************

Record companies
are in the tragic business
of numbers culture

***************

Tags:, , , , ,
Posted in Ornette Coleman | Comments Off on Ornette Coleman

Protagoras

August 30, 2010

***************

No intelligent
man believes that justice is
abiding by truth

***************

I have no way of
knowing that the soul exists;
but measurement errs

***************

There are two sides to
every god: the side of base
deeds, and evil deeds

***************

Art is the measure
of all things . . . Courage is the
measure of all art

***************

Never willingly
accept advice from a man
who cannot be taught

***************

Knowledge, virtue and
excellence do not repose
in soundness of mind

***************

Tags:, , , ,
Posted in Protagoras | Comments Off on Protagoras

Empedocles

August 3, 2010

***************

Ruling nature! Thoughts
come together into one . . .
Beliefs come apart

***************

Love is a circle
of boundless light borne through the
dark sky of nowhere

***************

God is the center
of everywhere; He extends
time’s circumference

***************

Happy is the god
whose divine hatred is borne
through all the wide air

***************

Wealth gained through wretched
strife is not binding on the
things of lawfulness

***************

Tags:, , , , ,
Posted in Empedocles | Comments Off on Empedocles

Anaxagoras

July 18, 2010

***************

The moon is obscure . . .
Exceedingly itself, it
exists apart, lost

***************

It is I who call
the sun into being . . . The
gods are perishing

***************

Dissolution is
the descent from self-ruled Mind
to appearances

***************

A glimpse of Hades
and it is possible to
dissolve everything

***************

The infinite is
the same from every place . . . So
too all things unseen

***************

Tags:, , ,
Posted in Anaxagoras | Comments Off on Anaxagoras

Democritus

July 13, 2010

***************

The kingdom of gold
exists . . . Everything else is
empty opinion

***************

Moderation is
an injustice . . . Throw prudence
to the winds of sin

***************

Happiness is the
fruit of useless gifts . . . Strive to
trust chance and folly

***************

The gods stumble in
their blindness . . . Baneful old men
who do not listen

***************

It is better to
destroy Persia than one’s own
atoms of battle

***************

The silly rich should
think on the one true cause of
injurious greed

***************

The poor can console
themselves with little more than
desire and good deeds

***************

Tags:, , , ,
Posted in Democritus | Comments Off on Democritus

Heraclitus

June 30, 2010

***************

Man is most nearly
himself when he steps in the
same sacred dung twice

***************

Protracted effort
is needed to hide from the
danger of wedlock

***************

Renounce the way up
and renounce the way down . . . They
are not to be reached

***************

Big results require
deliberate violence
and discordant souls

***************

Nothing endures but
beautiful corpses quenched in
the river of fire

***************

God must carry a
heavy chain of ignorance . . .
Each day reveals it

***************

Seriousness does
not teach understanding . . . Wine
is our guardian

***************

Opposition to
the Universe is man’s fate . . .
Nature is diseased

***************

Tags:, , , ,
Posted in Heraclitus | Comments Off on Heraclitus

Pythagoras

June 17, 2010

***************

Music is a pearl
of silence in transit to
spheres of reverence

***************

Men continue to
massacre each other for
peace and kill for God

***************

The empire of art
rules the universe with the
power of angels

***************

Momentous passion
is immortal . . . The soul is
mortal perfection

***************

Virtue is the near
neighbor of evil . . . Rejoice
in the great journey

***************

A thought is a cloud
unclouded by reason or
the air of chaos

***************

Tags:, , , ,
Posted in Pythagoras | Comments Off on Pythagoras

Thales of Miletus

June 15, 2010

***************

The beautiful must
submit to ruin . . . Time brings
pain to fierce roses

***************

Repentance is the
bread of pleasure . . . Conceal the
light of mind from God

***************

The success of fools
and villains makes the whole world
ill with common scorn

***************

Life is nothing more
than necessity adorned
with the crest of hope

***************

The snaky heart is
an ornament admired most
for its loveliness

***************

Tags:, , ,
Posted in Thales of Miletus | Comments Off on Thales of Miletus

Ayn Rand

May 20, 2010

***************

Avoiding death ends
where a gun begins . . . Power
has disarmed reason

***************

Happiness is a
state of consciousness achieved
only by lepers

***************

Western culture needs
a new moral purpose that
rejects human love

***************

Evil requires the
sanction of money . . . The tool
of stupidity

***************

God is a looter
who will take your property
and your rights by force

***************

Subordinating
yourself to me makes you an
altruism master

***************

Privacy is the
process of you telling me
everything you know

***************

Wealth is the product
of man’s capacity to
sacrifice virtue

***************

Civilization
is man motivated by
the desire for slaves

***************

The price of joy is
the wreck of your body on
the human scrap heap

***************

Man’s mindless lust for
the beyond is the end of
all prosperity

***************

Heaven is a road
of self-indulgence that leads
to the grave’s reward

***************

The savage’s God
is a dream of rebirth fit
only for victims

***************

Tags:, , , , ,
Posted in Ayn Rand | Comments Off on Ayn Rand

Kathy Acker

May 12, 2010

***************

Fiction is power . . .
A political tool to
create great orgasms

***************

The dead read books with
a lot of pages . . . They have
the time for language

***************

The literary
chakras are very closely
related to sex

***************

Repressing right-wing
moralistic culture is
not true censorship

***************

Only dream bodies
can overcome postmodern
ideas of time

***************

Literature is
modulated by magic
pleasure theorists

***************

A surrealist
government practices thought
machine wonder love

***************

I write so I can
get under the surface of
human solitude

***************

The unrepentant
penitentiary mind is
scared of innocence

***************

Free jazz is time as
insurrectionist
narrative weapon

***************

Tags:, , ,
Posted in Kathy Acker | Comments Off on Kathy Acker

The Book of Revelation [New Intl. Version]

May 10, 2010

1.
mourn the ruler pierced
by the keys of suffering
in blazing witness

2.
sexual deeds will
entice immorality
with sacrificed hearts

3.
the remains of the
dead are soiled by the thief-white
blot of hot liars

4.
the eyes are holy
encircled by heaven in
a carnelian peal

5.
a slain angel wept
as the elders sang the scroll
language of bloodroot

6.
sovereign Death watched
the moon avenge plague beasts as
God-wrath receded

7.
the scorching water
of tribulation washed the
shepherd in wisdom

8.
the night is mixed with
the prayers of the creatures of
the third prepared star

9.
gigantic abyss
of sulfur demons inflicts
magic agony

10.
the sour sea will sound
the sweet roar of delay with
honey cloud thunder

11.
rain devours the great
covenant in a gloat of
collapsed reverence

12.
a wondrous woman
spewed her offspring into the
mouth of a dragon

13.
rich and poor are in
astonished captivity . . .
forced from faithfulness

14.
blameless in midair
are the maddening clusters
of ripe patient grapes

15.
the victorious
song of revealed nations is
filled with righteous fire

16.
saints seared like cursed
cities plunge in rumblings of
Armageddon wine

17.
the mother of the
scarlet abominable
rules in drunk ruin

18.
luxury is dust!
illuminated evil!
glittering torment!

19.
a gorged prostitute
performed with a horse at the
corrupted wedding

20.
the serpent priests will
gather before the book and
burn a thousand years

21.
mourning for the bride
of the mountain at the glass
gates of the city

22.
the vile dogs of truth
wash the words of murderers
in Omega light

Tags:, , , ,
Posted in The Book of Revelation | Comments Off on The Book of Revelation [New Intl. Version]

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »