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“One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and nightmares - Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign: For a touch of her fingers In a darkened room, For a searching look. Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers?”

Looks Reason Hands Pain Waiting Love Is Rooms Vision Listening Lovers Universal Fingers Endure Dawn Nightmare Symptoms Stains Omen Migraine

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified to the lopped oak, and watched the dancers, red-eyed from the acrid smoke of the sacrificial fires, stamping out the measure of the dance, their bodies bent uncouthly forward, with a monotonous chant of "Kill! kill! kill!" and "Blood! blood! blood!”

Body Age Vision Sun Fire Magic Blood Poet Kings Moon Red Naked Smoke Dancer Bent Oaks Monotonous

Author:Robert Graves

“The difference between you and her (whom I to you did once prefer) Is clear enough to settle: She like a diamond shone, but you Shine like an early drop of dew Poised on a red rose petal. The dew-drop carries in its eye Mountain and forest, sea and sky, With every change of weather; Contrariwise, a diamond splits The prospect into idle bits That none can piece together.”

Enough Eye Together Bits Differences Clear Pieces Sea Sky Mountain Red Shining Rose Forests Weather Settling Carrie Diamond Splits Idle Dew Petals Red Rose Sea And Sky Rose Petals

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the noonday's warm sunshine To living lads for mirth and wine. I met you suddenly down the street, Strangers assume your phantom faces, You grin at me from daylight places, Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet Dead men down the morning street.”

Men Long Hands Faces Morning Darkness Streets Mines Mets Wine Lays Assuming Stranger Warm Ghost Ashamed Sunshine Stamps Daylight Old Friends Phantoms Dead Man Lad Mirth

Book:Country Sentiment

Source: Country Sentiment

“Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.”

Young Singing Bird Daughter Hats Tall Without Hope Catchers Larks Squires

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”

People Trying Facts Science Lying Imagination Freedom Chance Imagine Mystery Protect Despite Keep Trying

Author:Luis Bunuel

“Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.”

Trying Matter Hands Simple Situation Cases Four Impossible Mets Succeed Surface Scales Zombie Ladders Coordination

Book:The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

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