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Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was an American poet known for his deep emotions and rich imagination. His poetry often explores themes of human emotion and the natural world, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

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“হে চতুর্‌মুখ, পাপের ফল আর যেমনই দাও সহ্য করিতে প্রস্তুত আছি, কিন্তু অরসিকের কাছে রসের কথা বলা এ কপালে লিখিয়ো না, লিখিয়ো না, লিখিয়ো না।' বাস্তবিক, এমন শাস্তি আর নাই। জগতে অরসিক না থাকুক, এতবড়ো প্রার্থনা দেবতার কাছে করা যায় না, কারণ তাহা হইলে জগতের জনসংখ্যা অত্যন্ত হ্রাস হইয়া যায়। অরসিকের দ্বারাই পৃথিবীর অধিকাংশ কার্য সম্পন্ন হয়, তাঁহারা জনসমাজের পক্ষে অত্যন্ত প্রয়োজনীয়; তাঁহারা না থাকিলে সভা বন্ধ, কমিটি অচল, সংবাদপত্র নীরব, সমালোচনার কোটা একেবারে শূন্য; এজন্য, তাঁহাদের প্রতি আমার যথেষ্ট সম্মান আছে। কিন্তু ঘানিযন্ত্রে সর্ষপ ফেলিলে অজস্রধারে তৈল বাহির হয় বলিয়া তাহার মধ্যে ফুল ফেলিয়া কেহ মধুর প্রত্যাশা করিতে পারে না-- অতএব হে চতুর্‌মুখ, ঘানিকে চিরদিন সংসারে রক্ষা করিয়ো, কিন্তু তাহার মধ্যে ফুল ফেলিয়ো না এবং গুণিজনের হৃৎপিণ্ড নিক্ষেপ করিয়ো না।”

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Book:রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী : প্রথম খন্ড
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“The flowers must have been the latest generation of perennials, whose ancestors were first planted by a woman who lived in the ruins when the ruins were a raw, unpainted house inhabited by herself and a smoky, serious husband and perhaps a pair or silent, serious daughters, and the flowers were an act of resistance against the raw, bare lot with its raw house sticking up from the raw earth like an act of sheer, inevitable, necessary madness because human beings have to live somewhere and in something and here is just as outrageous as there because in either place (in any place) it seems like an interruption, an intrusion on something that, no matter how many times she read in her Bible, Let them have dominion, seemed marred, dispelled, vanquished once people arrived with their catastrophic voices and saws and plows and began to sing and hammer and carve and erect. So the flowers were maybe a balm or, if not a balm, some sort of gesture signifying the balm she would apply were it in her power to offer redress.”

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Author:Paul Harding
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“No ordinary person in history has willingly gone to war on behalf of the rich elite. It has been said that no one would ever fight in the name of capitalism. There are no martyrs for capitalism, no fiery, inspiring speeches, no people pledging to fight for it to their last breath. Who would go to the stake for the credo “Greed is good”? Capitalism never stirs the blood. It makes no contact with people’s souls. It has no heart. It’s all about the Profit Principle. It’s about private wealth and public exploitation. People would fight against capitalism, never for it. So, capitalism cunningly rebranded itself as “Freedom and Democracy”, and those are things for which people would and do fight. Whenever you hear the rhetoric of freedom and democracy, you can be sure you are listening to the propaganda of a cabal of superrich capitalists, manipulating you to fight on their behalf, in defence of their extortionate profits. Dumbocracy – A political system in which stupid people think they have power when, in fact, all decisions are taken by the rich. Freedumb and Dumbocracy – only the most stupid people on earth would fall for the lies of the rich. Freedom for what – to go shopping for capitalist goods? Democracy – freedom to vote for whomever the rich elite put on your ballot paper. Wake up!”

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Book:OWO
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