Tootfinder

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bokonon in Cat’s Cradle
#Poetry #Meaning

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, from “The Voiceless”
Music is the best.
--Frank Zappa, from Joe's Garage Act III, 1979
#GoodQuotes #Music #Poetry

gonna be vibing on this for a while, from "ah!merica," wee little collection of allen ginsberg's naropa lectures on william blake. (guitar pick for scale.) #books #poetry

There he is! Up there!
All the way up there!
The richest man in history!
I bet we could raise him higher yet—
At least the length of a pikestaff.
#poetry

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian writer, from the poem: “My Country”, 1908
#Poetry #QuoteOfTheDay

When no one cares, and no one sees
That private prayer upon your knees,
God hears your words to move the world,
When by his will he speaks to build
The Kingdom with his powerful ease ─
In private prayer it's God who's skilled
To hear the man with whom he's pleased.
#SmallPoems

On a withered branch
A crow has alighted:
Nightfall in autumn.
--Matsuo Basho, 1679
The 1st haiku poem.
I hope to find a few more translations.
#Poetry #History #Literature

Lieke Marsman | 1990 - 2026 🖤
" ... Je ogen zijn zo rood, omdat iemand heeft gezegd dat je ogen zo blauw zijn en dat heeft je geraakt. Het fijne aan geraakt worden is dat het niet lang hoeft te duren om lang te blijven duren en het vreemde aan geraakt zijn is dat het nagalmt en nastampt en toch ben je er stil van. ..."
uit het gedicht ‘Vasthoudendheid’ in Lieke's debuutbundel ‘Wat ik mijzelf graag voorhoud‘ (2010, Van Oorschot)
#LiekeMarsman #poetry #poezie

If you wanna smoke that stuff then you do you man, believe what you want.
But don't come quoting that slop machine at me, like it backs up a single thought.
Or worse, like it's a thought you had.
Here: this must be true, the robot thought it too!
The revolution will not come to mind when conferring with their chatbots.
The revolution will be live, not Ai-sized.
The revolution will be humanized.
#ai #poetry

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--William Butler Yeats
#Quote #Poetry #Wisdom #Knowledge