Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[astrangerhere]

But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture
Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good;
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Shakespeare, Richard III

[astrangerhere]

Its been more than a year, so bumping this thread with some new lines and a poem.

“Being an irreligious puritan and a rational mystic, I think it's irresponsible to let a belief think for you or a chemical dream for you.”

-Ursula K. Le Guin in the Afterward to The Farthest Shore

The Red Cockatoo

Sent as a present from Annam –
A red cockatoo,
Coloured like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.

And they did with it what is always done
To the learned and the eloquent:
They took a cage with stout bars
And shut it up inside.

Po Chu-I (772 -846), Translated by Arthur Waley