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...And love, the author of space and time
Keeps the galaxies and each sparrow alive
And the love that heals the wound
After the war is through...
"After All", Al Jarreau



Eu possa me dizer do amor (que tive):
Que não seja imortal , posto que é chama
Mas que seja infinito enquanto dure.

Soneto de Fidelidade
by Vinicius de Moraes

Holy Cow!...

There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber

Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. --Richard Cushing


It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Not everything that can be counted counts
and not everything that counts-
can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
- William Hazlitt

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
-Yogi Berra

Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not.
-George Bernard Shaw


A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  • 8 lines, 35 comments, January 15
  • etched a sign
    upon a stone
    18 lines, 16 comments, January 13
  • How satisfying this fond illusion
    sky and clouds,
    17 lines, 41 comments, January 11. In Nature, Thoughts
  • Rivers hold stories,
    traces of things done.
    34 lines, 12 comments, January 7
  • 13 lines, 49 comments, September 13, 2007
  • there was always a difference
    between sitting for an artist
    15 lines, 30 comments, September 11, 2007
  • Withering before the breath of a hurricane,
    pounded by gales and rising waters
    39 lines, 11 comments, September 6, 2007
  • And even from birth I was a proud wooded vessel / hardwood beams formed my crest and prow, Oak; / Chestnut, Black Walnut, and Sycamores; Th
    37 lines, 48 comments, May 21, 2007
  • Part One
    To whom much is given, much is expected.
    531 lines, 25 comments, March 10, 2007

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    25 lines, May 10
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    into small steps towards setting sun
    24 lines, 5 comments, May 10
  • My eyes paint a memory
    of this woman
    33 lines, 10 comments, May 6
  • I think my heart grew wings and flew away,
    37 lines, 5 comments, May 6

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