Taodesteve• Show poetry

I write about things that matter to me, questions that I have about life, and feelings that I feel.

I find that in putting my emotions into words I can look back upon them and understand what I was thinking more than I ever could in the moment.

That said, here are some of my favorite quotes:

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.

-Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9

"For have I, I've built a castle
Upon believing before I doubt.
I have suffered, but my friends say I have learned from it.
And for have I, believed the snow could
Not be freezing upon the ground.
Now my ass is blue and black, but I am sound.

And for have I belonged to no one
More than fleetingly and in doubt.
I have had what now is gone
But still I've known them.
And for have I, I have absolved myself
Of demons I must confess.
Having known them growing old, then
I will re-e-e-est.

But where are all the songs
For me to sing along
Well I am hoping someone writes one for me.
And sings me something sweetly
For I promise to sing along.
And then we'll both know nothing's wrong,
Singing na, na-na-na"

-The Dandy Warhols, "I Am Sound"


'Long ago in days of yore
it all began with a god named Thor
and some Vikings and boats and some plans for a furniture store'

-Ikea, Jonathan Coulton


"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta"

-Geto Boys


"Doesn't anybody feel
that all these killers should be killed
And all these healers should be healed
So all these beggars can be filled?"

-Toes Across the Floor, Blind Melon

"It's Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time
It's Tricky...it's Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky)
It's Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time
It's Tricky...Tr-tr-tr-tricky (Tricky) Trrrrrrrrrrricky"

-Run DMC