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Discussion in 'Off-topic Discussion' started by PasterofMuppets, Sep 12, 2017.

  1. PasterofMuppets

    PasterofMuppets Fapstronaut

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    It doesn't matter if it's a haiku, a four-word quote or an entire chapter

    "You can learn even just just by being." - The Nonexistent Knight, Italo Calvino

    Silvia, do you remember
    the moments, in your mortal life,
    when beauty still shone
    in your sidelong, laughing eyes,
    and you, light and thoughtful,
    went
    beyond girlhood’s limits?

    The quiet rooms and the streets
    around you, sounded
    to your endless singing,
    when you sat, happily content,
    intent, on that woman’s work,
    the vague future, arriving alive in your mind.
    It was the scented May, and that’s how
    you spent your day.

    I would leave my intoxicating studies,
    and the turned-down pages,
    where my young life,
    the best of me, was left,
    and from the balcony of my father’s house
    strain to catch the sound of your voice,
    and your hand, quick,
    running over the loom.
    I would look at the serene sky,
    the gold lit gardens and paths,
    that side the mountains, this side the far-off sea.
    And human tongue cannot say
    what I felt then.

    What sweet thoughts,
    what hopes, what hearts, O Silvia mia!
    How it appeared to us then,
    all human life and fate!
    When I recall that hope
    such feelings pain me,
    harsh, disconsolate,
    I brood on my own destiny.
    Oh Nature, Nature
    why do you not give now
    what you promised then? Why
    do you so deceive your children?

    Attacked, and conquered, by secret disease,
    you died, my tenderest one, and did not see
    your years flower, or feel your heart moved,
    by sweet praise of your black hair
    your shy, loving looks.
    No friends talked with you,
    on holidays, about love.

    My sweet hopes died also
    little by little: to me too
    Fate has denied those years. Oh,
    how you have passed me by,
    dear friend of my new life,
    my saddened hope!
    Is this the world, the dreams,
    the loves, events, delights,
    we spoke about so much together?
    Is this our human life?
    At the advance of Truth
    you fell, unhappy one,
    and from the distance,
    with your hand, you pointed
    towards death’s coldness and the silent grave. -
    A Silvia, Giacomo Leopardi
     
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  2. One of my favorite lines I was listening to the other day....

    When violet eyes get brighter and heavy wings grow lighter, I'll taste the sky and feel alive again. And I'll forget the world that I knew, but I swear I won't forget you. Oh, if my voice could reach back through the past, I'd whisper in your ear, "Oh, darling, I wish you were here."
     
  3. Poseidon

    Poseidon Fapstronaut

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    Beastie Boys
    "Crazy Ass Shit"

    On and on, to the break of dawn
    On and on, to the break of dawn
    On and on, to the break of dawn
    On and on, to the break of dawn

    [Ad Rock:]
    Now, let me introduce myself, I'm Ad Rock (Rock)
    No matter what you order well I got it in stock (stock)
    The dooty rhyme thing, well we got it on lock (lock)
    Top off the look with the argyle sock

    [MCA:]
    Take it from me now I'm gonna give it all I got (got)
    I take a licking, still tick tick tock (tock)
    But smoked salmon ain't old school lox (lox)
    So go to Peter Brady and buy Greg's sox

    [Mike D:]
    It's Mike on the mic and I'm known to please (please)
    Stinky, nasty, like the head cheese (cheese)
    Caps gowns honorary degrees
    Rhymes fresh pressed like eighty-three Lees

    You can't stop you got to keep on
    Keep, keep-keep-keep, keep-keep on
    You can't stop you got to keep on

    I mean that's all I got, except I've just got...
    Even Michael Diamond him never learn
    Atop him head him have a curly perm


    [Mike D:]
    Tissue up my nose and my dick's in a cast (cast)
    I don't wanna talk about it, past is past (past)
    All you crusty punks that are into crass (crass)
    Go and take a shower and wash that ass

    [Ad Rock:]
    We rock non stop here in New York City (City)
    Sweet on the mic looking so damn pretty (pretty)
    Served by me well it must feel shitty (shitty)
    Weird thing to say here it goes tough titty!

    [MCA:]
    I've got my rhymes in a pitcher and it's time to pour (pour)
    I'm at the tee and I'm screaming "FORE!" (FORE)
    Hit into your party as I declare war (war)
    Roberta Peterson's got a spine like a dinosaur

    You can't stop you got to keep on
    Keep, keep-keep-keep, keep-keep on
    You can't stop you got to keep on
    Keep, keep-keep-keep, keep-keep on
    You can't stop you got to keep on
    On and on, to the break of dawn

    Brass monkey you're the funky...
    Brass monkey you're the funky...
    Brass monkey you're the funky...
    Brass monkey you're the funky...​
     
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  4. Third_Eye

    Third_Eye Guest

    Here's a lyric from 2Pac's "Dear Mama"

    Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

    It's such a beautiful song, and I dedicate it to my mom :)
     
  5. Clean Plate

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    "Real life is the present moment not the memories of past which is dead and gone, nor dreams of the future which are not yet born. One who lives in the present moment lives the REAL LIFE and HE[/SHE] IS HAPPIEST." The Buddha... I live and breathe by this quote.
     
  6. IggyIshness

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    "The obstacle is the path"
     
  7. Buzz Lightyear

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    The Interface of Experience

    In the interface of experience,
    We warp both space and inner time,
    We bend to our will the real and ideal,
    Unlocking petty distinctions of mind.

    What we once thought insignificant
    In the first flush of our enthusiasm
    Now dissolves our illusions in meaning
    To disempower the unmindful spasm.

    And what was once veiled in uncertainty,
    Like some malady to be disdained;
    We learnt at last to relinquish its power,
    And found two-fold a fullness gained.
     
  8. All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave
    Must be something else we say, Somehow to defend this place
    Everything must be this way, Everything must be this way, yeah
    The Soft Parade has now begun, Listen to the engines hum
    People out to have some fun,
    A cobra on my left
    Leopard on my right, yeah

    from The Soft Parade by The Doors
     
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  9. There was a man of double deed,
    Who sowed his garden full of seed;
    When the seed began to grow,
    'Twas like a garden full of snow;
    When the snow began to melt,
    'Twas like a ship without a belt;
    When the ship began to sail,
    'Twas like a bird without a tail;
    When the bird began to fly,
    'Twas like an eagle in the sky;
    When the sky began to roar,
    'Twas like a lion at my door;
    When my door began to crack,
    'Twas like a stick across my back;
    When my back began to smart,
    'Twas like a penknife in my heart;
    And when my heart began to bleed,
    'Twas death, and death, and death indeed.
     
  10. Clean Plate

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    I relate to jimbo so much! Just like him I was always felt like a loner, getting so high and wasted, man my teen years were so crazy! Man he wrote alot of his poetry while on drugs its crazy, who the Fu*ck knows how he really felt. I wish he would have made a song while he was clean and sober for a long time, would he have sucked, who the hell knows, lol.
     
  11. Nah. Just b/c you take drugs and drink massive amounts of alco doesn't mean you can write. It takes talent and a certain ability to see into one's self, yaknow?
     
  12. Kenzi

    Kenzi Fapstronaut

    Only what You allow, will continue.
    If you don't like something,
    Change it.
     
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  13. Mindful Herbivore

    Mindful Herbivore Fapstronaut

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    Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"
    (originally by B. J. Thomas)

    Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
    Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
    Nothing seems to fit
    Oh, raindrops keep fallin' on my head
    Keep a-fallin'

    Cause I just done me some talking to the sun
    And I said I didn't like the way he got things done
    Sleeping on the job
    Oh, raindrops keep fallin' on my head
    Keep a-fallin'

    But there's one thing I know
    The blues they send to meet me
    Won't defeat me
    It won't be long till happiness
    Comes up to greet me
    To greet greet greet greet me

    Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
    But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
    Crying's not for me
    Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining

    Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
    But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
    Crying's not for me
    Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining

    Because I'm free
    Nothing's bothering me
    Because I'm free
    Nothing's bothering me
    Because I'm free
    Nothing's bothering me
    Because I'm free
    Nothing's bothering me
     
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  14. Parzival

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    Invictus by William Earnest Henway

    Out of the night that covers me
    black as the pit from pole to pole
    I thank whatever gods may be
    for my unconquerable soul.

    In the fell clutch of circumstance
    I have not winced nor cried aloud,
    Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My head is bloodied but unbowed

    Beyond this place of wrath and tears
    looms but the horror of the shade,
    and yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid.

    It matters not how strait the gate
    How charged with punishments the scroll.
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.
     
  15. FOS

    FOS Guest

    When you come to a point where you have no need to impress anybody, your freedom will begin.
     
  16. This reminded me of this:

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  17. FOS

    FOS Guest

    kinda same point of view, sister
     
  18. Just Rose

    Just Rose Distinguished Fapstronaut

    [​IMG]That's from the Butterfly Circus :D:emoji_butterfly:
     
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