SARA TEASDAlE 1884-1933 “Love Songs” Poet
I MAKE THE MOST OF ALL THAT COMES AND THE LEAST OF ALL THAT GOES.
NO ONE WOULD MIND, NEITHER BIRD NOR TREE IF MANKIND PERISHED UTTERLY; AND SPRING HERSELF, WHEN SHE WOKE AT DAWN, WOULD SCARCELY KNOW THAT WE WERE GONE.
IT IS STRANGE how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
I SHALL GATHER MYSELF into my self again, I shall take moves scattered selves again and make them one.
SPEND ALL YOU HAVE FOR LOVELINESS, BUY IT AND NEVER COUNT THE COST; for one white singing hour of peace count many a year of strife well lost, and for a breath of ecstasy give all you have been, or could be.
LOOK for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far.
ONLY BY LOVE IS LIFE MADE REAL.
WHEN I CAN LOOK LIFE IN THE EYES, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange — my youth.
MY SOUL IS A BROKEN FIELD, PLOWED BY PAIN.
NO ONE WORTH POSSESSING CAN BE QUITE POSSESSED.
TIME IS A KIND FRIEND, HE WILL MAKE US OLD.
MY SOUL is a dark ploughed field in the cold rain; My soul is a broken field ploughed by pain.
ONE BY ONE, like leaves from a tree, / all my faiths have forsaken me.
WISDOM IS NOT ACQUIRED SAVE AS THE RESULT OF INVESTIGATION.
LIFE is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
CAN I EVER KNOW YOU / OR YOU KNOW ME?
BEAUTY, MORE THAN BITTERNESS, MAKES THE HEART BREAK.
I SHALL NOT LET A SORROW DIE Until I find the heart of it, nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.
MY THEORY is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. . . . the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.
THE ACHE OF EMPTY ARMS WAS AN OLD TALE TO YOU.
OH WHO CAN TELL THE RANGE OF JOY OR SET THE BOUNDS OF BEAUTY?
NOW AT LAST I HAVE COME TO SEE WHAT LIFE IS, NOTHING IS EVER ENDED. everything only begun, and the brave victories that seem so splendid are never really won.
ROGER PENROSE 1931——-PHYSICIST “THE ROAD TO REALITY”
NOBEL PRIZE: “FOR THE DISCOVERY THAT BLACK HOLE FORMATION IS A ROBUST PREDICTION OF THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY.”
CONSCIOUSNESS . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe’s very existence is made known.
INTELLIGENCE CANNOT BE PRESENT WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING.
I WOULD SAY THE UNIVERSE HAS A PURPOSE. It’s not there just somehow by chance.
WE HAVE A CLOSED CIRCLE OF CONSISTENCY HERE: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produce mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.
UNDERSTANDING IS, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.
WITH THOUGHT comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.
IT MAY WELL BE there is something else going on in the brain that we don’t have an inkling of at the moment.
DUSTIN HOFFMAN ACTOR 1937. “TOOTSIE”.
I FEEL CHEATED never being able to know what it’s like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.
THIS IS YOUR LIFE. NOW GO MAKE IT ONE YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED.
DEPRESSED, ANXIOUS, SAD, FRIGHTENED? YES. BIUT I’VE NEVER BEEN BORED.
I’D LIKE TO THANK MY PARENTS FOR NOT PRACTICING BIRTH CONTROL.
LIFE IS AN OCCASION . . . RISE TO IT.
ONE THING about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.
TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE, a man must, on a a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.
37 SECONDS, WELL USED, IS A LIFETIME.
I LIVED BELOW THE OFFICIAL AMERICAN POVERTY LINE UNTIL I WAS 31.
IT’S VERY PAINFUL for us to feel we deserve a life. that’s the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.
HUMANITY CEASED TO EXIST WHEN ISRAEL WAS ESTABLISHED.
LIVE AND BE CHEERFUL.!