88 posts tagged “quote”
"My love for Albertine had been but a transitory form of my devotion to youth."
Marcel Proust
"Guerrilla warfare is Afghan's national sports."
Some expert dude on CNN program GPS, hosted by Fareed Zakaria
"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a specific question."
Albert Camus
"You are your own worst enemy."
"Restless Heart Syndrome" from the album 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day
"You need various lovers, for various aspects of yourself."
Leonard Cohen
"I expect nothing from a man, and everything from a woman."
Serge Gainsbourg
"I loved you when you opened
Like a lilly to the heat
You see, I'm just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet
Who loved you with his frozen love
His secondhand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep
I know you had to lie to me
I know you had to cheat
To pose all hot and high
Behind the veils of sheer deceit
Our perfect porn aristocrat
So elegant and cheap
I'm old but I'm still into that
A thousand kisses deep
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate
It's in between I freeze
Been working out but it's too late
(It's been too late for years)
But you look good, you really do
They love you on the street
If you were here I'd kneel for you
A thousand kisses deep"
Excerpt from "Recitation" from "Live in London" album by Leonard Cohen
* There's his song called "A Thousand Kisses Deep", but its lyrics are completely different from this poem he recites. I don't know the story behind this; they are both great though.
"Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses."
Jorge Luis Borges
"A woman naked is a woman armed."
Victor Hugo
"来る者は拒まず、去る者は追わず。"
("Never refuse those who come; yet never chase after those who leave.")
A Japanese saying
