ELIZA JENKINS
❝ Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind
From Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’
what she means:the bourgeoisie is just as necessary a precondition for the socialist revolution as is the proletariat itself.
❝ It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.
Algernon - ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
❝ The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake (via burning-their-money)
❝ The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 (via thisiscarlyjaye)
❝ We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
(Source: wordsthat-speak, via everythingsnonsense)