Heroes

"In the face of danger they stand tall

Heroes rise and give their all

With hearts of gold ans spirits bright

they shine so bold in the dark of night."

Somwang

Most people...

“Most people are other people. Their

thoughts are someone else's opinions,

their lives a mimicry, their passions

a quotation.”

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

Heroic hearts...

"It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Beauty...

  

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds

her own face in a perfect mirror."

Rabindranath Tagore

TWILIGHT OF FREEDOM

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"Let us praise, brothers, the 

twilight of freedom,

this great darkening year.

Into these seething night waters

an unwieldy forest of snares has 

been lowered.

You are rising in such hollow times

O sun, judge and people.

Let us praise this fateful burden,

which in tears the people’s leader has taken on.

Let us praise the gloomy weight of power,

its unbearable burden,

for time, anyone with a heart must hear

how your boat sinks to the bottom.

We have bound the swallows into battle legions,

and can no longer see the sun,

yet all the elements are moving,

stirring and twittering,

dense twilight through the snares.

We can no longer see the sun…,

but the earth is afloat…

So come on, let’s give it one last try:

one great, clumsy creaking pull of the oar.

The earth is afloat. Let’s give our all

as the plough cleaves through the ocean.

We will remember, even in the cold of lethe

that for us the earth was worth ten heavens."

Osip Mandelstam

“The Birch Tree”

Under my window

Tucked in the snow

White birch retired

Clad in silver glow.

On the fluffy branches

Snowy-trim with silver-tinge

Melted around catkins

Forming white fringe.

Like golden fires

Snow-flakes blazed

While birch stood still

Asleep, or amazed.

Meanwhile, lazily

Strolling around,

Dawn threw more “silver”

On the twigs (and ground).

Sergei Yesenin.

Translation by K.M.W.Klara

Go all in....

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart". 

Confucius

Running is...

“Running is flying intermittently”

Alain Bremond-Torrent

On free will...

  

"If you really had free will, you

would not have been born."

Master Wei