“What will survive of us is love.”
— Philip Larkin, Poems
A collection and celebration of lyrics, poetry and quotations.
AN ODE TO THE WORD
“What a taunt to be kept alive
When all but faith has died
And fragments of sin survive
In a world where
Dark air’s not really night.”
— - Shaunagh Duncan
“Who is my grief, a chrysalis unwrinkling on the iron.”
— Dylan Thomas, A Grief Ago
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
— - Mark Twain
“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”
— - Dr. Seuss
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
”— Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) from the Prologue to his autobiography, ‘What I Have Lived For.’ Russel won the Nobel Prize for literature for his ‘History of Western Philosophy.’
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”
— - John Steinbeck
