the Muses' Garden

( Die for Metal )

There's a point in all your dreaming,
to every time mean has just deserves,
and every time I caught you leaving..

i had to dream awake..

and for every time I came home screaming,
and got sent away, with no warmin at all,

I had to dream awake..

there's a calling, a calling, a calling,,
to everyone, who lost something.

and who had to dream awake.

there's a fight were not conending,
where we have to the words get mixed,
and the point is lost
where we have to dream awake.

so take us under now..
take us over now..

there's a warning, a warming, a warning,
to everyone, who found something..

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Heard this one watching the excellent "Life" a few weeks ago.

<3

How cruel is the golden rule,
When the lives we lived are only golden plated.
And I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me,
Though I carried carats for everyone to see.
And I saw god cry in the reflection of my enemies.
And all the lovers with no time for me.
And all of the mothers raise their babies to stay away from me.

Tongues on the sockets of electric dreams,
Where the sewage of youth drowned the spark of my teens.
And I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me,
(Too heavy for me.)
Though I carried carats for everyone to see.
(Everyone to see.)
And I saw god cry in the reflection of my enemies.
And all the lovers with no time for me.
And all of the mothers raise their babies to stay away from me,
And pray they don’t grow up to be...
-- Fall Out Boy, Golden

"Hope is a waking dream."
--Aristotle

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
~ Ben Franklin, from the Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
~Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
- M. C. Richards

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

-Warren Buffet

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole.

Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Don't worry, he's crazy, so he doesn't have to have any particular reasons for being up on a telephone pole.

Inconvenience is adventure wrongly considered.

Not gods, just men.

"I read some book about brains. My roommate had it and she kept waving it around. It was like, how five thousand years ago the lobes of the brain fused and before that people thought when the right lobe of the brain said anything it was the voice of some god telling them what to do. It's just brains."
-Sam, American Gods

"I bet it's like space aliens. These days, people see space aliens. Back then they saw gods. Maybe the space aliens come from the right side of the brain."
"I don't think the gods ever gave rectal probes. And they didn't mutilate the cattle themselves. They got people to do it for them."
-Sam and Shadow

The locals were implacable. "When they see the corpses of their friends, they'll know we don't want them here."

"You're fucked up Mister, but you're cool."

"He's a jerk. I'm proud of my Indian blood. It helps pay my college tuition."

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

Common sense is just a collection of prejudices claimed by the age of 18.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.

Every ending is a new beginning.
Your lucky number is none.
Your lucky color is dead.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
-- Dave Barry

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot

Life is an opportunity, avail it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is costly, care for it.
Life is a wealth, keep it.
Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is a mystery, know it.
Life is a promise, fulfil it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, brace it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is life, save it.
Life is Luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
- Mother Teresa

Who finds a faithful friend finds a treasure.

- Ben Sira 6:14

"The many rules strip us of the most important thing: the ability to be considerate. We're losing our capacity for socially responsible behavior. The greater the number of prescriptions, the more people's sense of personal responsibility dwindles."
-- Hans Monderman

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown

If things go wrong, don't go with them. ~Roger Babson

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Author Unknown

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere. ~Glenn Turner

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. ~Christian Nevell Bovee

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb

"We create death when we define what constitutes life."
-- Lao-tze, translated by Master John Bright-Fey

Chasing Cars
-Snow Patrol

( We'll do it all, everything, on our own.. )

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. ~R.H. Heinlein

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Maya Angelou

Without discipline, there's no life at all.
-- Katharine Hepburn

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
-- John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
-- George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft

She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
-- Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-- Jeff Marder

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
-- George Bernard Shaw