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Every Zappa quote in existence...

Dew-drinker, opium-eater,
I have seen your mouth transfigured
By the fragments of ancient fevers.

It was a wild, strange sound.

Honey-seeker, sun-worshipper,
I have heard the wind in white cedars
And black poplars.

It was the colour of wet narcissus.

River-walker, crocus-gatherer,
I have tasted the petals of acanthus
And Thessalian iris.

They were but circles of salt.

-Bethany van Rijswijk, from ‘Opium-eater’



"Loneliness ripens the eccentric, the daringly and estrangingly beautiful, the poetic. But loneliness also ripens the perverse, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the illicit."
-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice


"Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay."
-Regeneration, Pat Barker

"Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business." – Bertrand Russell

"All warfare is based on deception." – Sun Tzu

"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." — Gospel of Matthew 26:52

"There are no atheists in foxholes, this isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."
— James Morrow

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Nietzsche

"Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission, and yet seekest not to move the will by threatening aught that would arouse natural aversion or terror, but merely holdest forth a law which of itself finds entrance into the mind, and yet gains reluctant reverence (though not always obedience), a law before which all inclinations are dumb, even though they secretly counter-work it; what origin is there worthy of thee, and where is to be found the root of thy noble descent which proudly rejects all kindred with the inclinations; a root to be derived from which is the indispensable condition of the only worth which men can give themselves?" — Immanuel Kant

"We are shadows of tender fury; our dark wings will cover the sky again, and their protective cloak will shelter the dispossessed and the good men and women who understand that justice and peace go hand in hand. If they deny us our rights, then our tender fury will enter those fine mansions. There will be no fence our shadow will not jump over; no door will be left unopened, no window left unbroke, no wall left standing. Our shadow will bring pain to those who call for war and death for our race; more tears and blood will flow before peace can sit down at our table with goodwill."

~ Zapatista Army of National Liberation

"The jig is up, you jaded, jug-headed, jack-in-the-box." - Darkwing Duck

"Little Miss Muffet. Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet / And boy what a big tuffet she had! If you're feeling insecure, just sit next to her / And then you won't feel quite so bad. Thank you." - Dot, Animaniacs

"As far as I can make out "Edgy" occurs when middlebrow, middle-aged profiteers are looking to suck the energy - not to mention spending money - out of the "youth culture." So they come up with this fake concept of seeming to be dangerous when every move they make is the result of market research and a corporate mater plan." - Daria

We are our memory,
we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,
that pile of broken mirrors
— Jorge Luis Borges, “Cambridge” 1969

"The innocent and the beautiful do not have enemies, other than time."

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I confess that with each new poetic contribution from Chiomara, I feel that my own quote offerings are less and less adequate. But just the same, I'll offer a few favorites.

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.” ~ The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

and similarly,

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~ Rollo May

“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.” ~
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” ~ Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

And while far from poetic, John Perry Barlow's A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is one of the most culturally important statements of the last twenty years. His foresight about the new frontier of freedom, free thought, and free speech back in 1996 is as relevant, no - is more relevant today than ever before. I was able to secure a vinyl copy of the anniversary recording and transcript from the Department of Records, with instrumental accompaniment by Drazen Bosnjak. But for anyone who hasn't yet read or heard this critically important piece, please give it your attention.

Did he use communist correctly in that quote?

"The only real April's fool joke is your life."
-Bongripper