The all-new quote thread

[Saturn]

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the overcoming of it".

[Malia]

That's one of my favorite quotes, Saturn! Thanks for posting it as it is truer than true

[dks]

From my favorite Yeats poem...

...Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

"The Stolen Child"

[dks]

I'm quoting him from off the cuff, no kidding...

..."I wanna take you on a tour of Yeats country in Sligo...you'll love it...it'll be like a Keats tour, but with a 'Y'."

Edward Keenaghan

[Saturn]

[Saturn]

"You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with."
~Wayne Dyer~

[Heaven/Hell]

"I spent most of my fortune on birds, cars and booze. The rest I just squandered frivolously."
- George Best (thought you'd like this Saturn, being Irish)

[Saturn]

"I spent most of my fortune on birds, cars and booze. The rest I just squandered frivolously."
- George Best (thought you'd like this Saturn, being Irish)

I've always loved that one.

I miss Bestie

I went to sign his book of condolence when he died. He was one of my hereoes as a kid who wanted to be a footballer.

[Heaven/Hell]

It's a cliche as old as the stars I know (used to describe them by an ancient astronomer), but once his footie playing was described as "poetry in motion".
He once said something which is not to hand about too many kids coming through the ranks obsessed with being rich playing football, but for him it was about a love for the game. He played with passion - that was why he was so good. The money and everything else to him were bonuses.

[Saturn]

If only he hadn't had the booze

RIP Bestie

[Heaven/Hell]

"That Light whose smile kindles the Universe
That Beauty in which all things work and move
That Benediction, which the eclipsing Curse
Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love,
Which through the web of being blindly wove
By man and beast and earth and air and sea,
Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of
The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me
Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality."
- from Adonais by Shelley

[Heaven/Hell]

"It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then he is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet

[Malia]

"It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then he is caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet

I've heard that Emerson was a "snoot" of a guy, but WOW, what a writer!

[Heaven/Hell]

Be aware that by "man", I take Emerson to mean "mankind", as in including women.
He describes the Universal Spirit/the All/transcendental intelligence with such eloquence in this passage here.
By "snoot", did you mean his falling out with the other American Transcendentalists Thoreau and Whitman? Or is there some side of him of which I'm not aware?

[Malia]

Be aware that by "man", I take Emerson to mean "mankind", as in including women.
He describes the Universal Spirit/the All/transcendental intelligence with such eloquence in this passage here.
By "snoot", did you mean his falling out with the other American Transcendentalists Thoreau and Whitman? Or is there some side of him of which I'm not aware?

By "snooty" I mean that he was a bit of an elitist. He looked down on Hawthorne (I believe in part because Hawthorne didn't write in a style Emerson appreciated) and from what I heard from American Literature scholars on an NPR radio show once, liked to hear himself talk. . .a lot! Sort of like the aging Wordsworth, I guess. It reminds me of that story where Keats was visiting Wordsworth's house once and while Wordsworth was in one of the middle of his monologues, Keats tried to say something and Wordsworth's wife put a hand on Keats's and said, "Mr. Wordsworth is never interrupted."