Is (I know I'm wussing out, but have used all my long, live and dead quotes already in here).

She Comes Not by Herbert Trench

She comes not when noon is on the roses –
Too bright is day
She comes not to the soul til it reposes
From work and play

But when the night is on the hills and the
Great voices roll in from the sea
In starlight and candle-light and dreamlight,
She comes to me.

Noon

O dark , dark , amid the blaze of noon ,
Irrecoverably dark , total eclipse ,
Without all hope of day !

John Milton

It was that fatal and perfidious bark,

Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.

Milton

With

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others, to give one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived … this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson “Success”

Child
 

You

A poem by Dorothy Parker (the great cynic)

Razors pain you, rivers are damp
acids stain you and drugs cause cramp
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give
Gas smells awful; you might as well live.

You
 

dreams

Dreams are true while they last ,
& do we not live in dreams?
Lord Alfred Tennyson

dreams

Oh Mom, the dreams are not so bad
It's just that there's so much to do
And I'm tired of sleeping...

~ Suzanne Vega

Sleeping

I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant ,
& his reaction will be terrible .

Isoroku Yamamoto

I (sorry, best I could do :p )

I think my mask of sanity
is about to slip.

~Patrick Bateman~

American Psycho

Sanity

Sanity is very rare : every man almost ,
& every woman , has a dash of madness .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

man

It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help
It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else
They say a secret is something you tell one other person
So I'm telling you...child


A man will beg
A man will crawl
On the sheer face of love
Like a fly on a wall
It's no secret at all

The Fly.........U2

love


"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so
vulnerable. It opens up your chest and it opens your heart and it means
someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these
defenses. you build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt
you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person,
wanders in to your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They
don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile
at you, and them your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages.
It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness,
so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very
perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.
It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul
hurt, a body hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate
love" -Neil Gaiman

your

Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beasts under your bed,
In your closet, in your head

Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land

~ Metallica

night

Soul love...this love won't let me go
So long...Angel of Harlem
Angel of Harlem

Blue light on the avenue
God knows they got to you
An empty glass, the lady sings
Eyes swollen like a bee sting
Blinded you lost your way
Through the side streets and the alleyway
Like a star exploding in the night
Falling to the city in broad daylight
An angel in Devil's shoes
Salvation in the blues
You never looked like an angel
Yeah yeah...Angel of Harlem


Angel of Harlem.........U2

Lost

Moonbeams are no longer silver
Selena has lost her magic.
My dreams of youth no longer solid,
My mood is morbid, tragic.

What happened to my illusions?
To fight the Earth and rise the skies
was my life. Can it be that dreams of youth
are lies?

Selena, help me.


A very young Oldfart.

Illusion

Religion is an illusion & it derives its strength from the fact
that it falls in with our instinctual desires .

Sigmund Freud

desires

To the soul's desires
The body listens
What the flesh requires
Keeps the heart imprisoned

What the spirit seeks
The mind will follow
When the body speaks
All else is hollow

~ Depeche Mode

Heart

"the Coin"

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin
That time cannot take nor a thief purloin, --
Oh better than the minting of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory of a lovely thing.

by Sara Teasdale (one of my favorite poets)

Memory

For my name & memory , I leave it to men's charitable speeches , & to foreign nations, & the next ages .

Francis Bacon

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

Sir Walter Scott

"The"

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller

O! it is excellent

To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous

To use it like a giant.

Will Shakespeare, the Scots play

Strength

I’ve dealt with my ghosts and I’ve faced all my demons;
Finally content with the past I regret.
I’ve found you find strength in your moments of weakness,
For once I’m at peace with myself.
I’ve been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long…
I’m moving on.


from a C&W song by Rascall Flats - "I'm movin' on"

Of

"The blues of mental and physical wear and tear are not as devastating as the yellows of the quitter."

--James J. Walker

A winner never quits
and a quitter never wins


Unknown (to me)

With outstreched hoe I slew him at the door,

And taught him NEVER TO COME THERE NO MORE.

Cowper, The Colubriad.

More

"Nothing in this world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

--Victor Hugo

Powerful

Every man thinks God is on his side.
The rich & powerful know that he is .

Jean Anouilh

God

To be good only is to be
A god or else a Pharisee.

--William Blake

Good

Hold on to what is good
Even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe
Even if it is a tree which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do
Even if it is a long way from here.
Hold on to life
Even when it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand
Even when I have gone away from you. Native American Prayer

~Hold~

Will you hold me sacred?
Will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life I'm so sick of black and white?
Can you make it all a little less old?
Meat Loaf
"I'd do anything for love(But won't do that)

Life

One thing is certain , that Life flies;
One thing is certain , & the Rest is lies ;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies .

Edward Fitzgearld

One

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...
Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...

One......U2

mouth

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.
Work is x, y is play, and z is keeping your mouth shut.

~ Albert Einstein

Work

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

Dictionary

Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside a dictionary .

David Lodge

WORDS

"Words mean nothing if you put no feeling into them."
Robert Frost

"you"

Well she drew out all her money from the Southern Trust
and put her little boy on a Greyhound Bus
Leaving from Memphis with a guitar in his hand
On a one way ticket to the Promised Land

Well hey little girl with the red dress on
There's a party tonight down in Memphis-town
I'll be going down there if YOU need a ride
the man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died.

We drove down to Memphis
the sky was hard and black
up over the ridge came a white Cadillac
He'd drawn out all his money and they let him in the back
A woman cried from the road, sighing Elvis' going home

They found him slumped up against the drain
with a whole lot of trouble
just a-runnin' through his veins
Bye-Bye Johnny
Johnny Bye-Bye
You didn't have to die,
you didn't have to die

-Bruce Springsteen Johnny Bye-Bye, flip side of Cover Me 45
In memory of Elvis Presley on the 25th anniversary of his death