Mass Quotes #11
I watched “Midnight” from Doctor Who and boy did that unnerve me. I’m not scared, but unnerved. That’s the only word I can think of.
And then I read Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti. Now I’m continuing in the vein of strange, somewhat creepy poetry. And I love it.
We must not look at Goblin men
We must not buy their fruit
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?
- Goblin Market, Christina Rosetti
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
- The Hollow Men, T.S. Elliot
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
- The Hollow Men, T.S. Elliot
Life is but life, and death but death!
Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!
And if, indeed, I fail,
At least to know the worst is sweet.
Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No drearier can prevail!
-Rouge Gagne, Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the achin,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
- Emily Dickinson
Significant; Calvin & Hobbes
“‘I’m significant!’ screamed the dust speck.”
-Calvin; Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Creation of the Universe; Hitchhiker’s Guide
In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and had been wildly regarded as a bad move.
-Douglas Adams, The Resteraunt at the End of the Universe
