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“Now, I have no desire for poetry or joy, yet I will make nothing better by crying, nor worse by seeking good foods and pleasure.”

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“O my soul, my soul—you are mutilated helplessly by this blade of sorrow. Yet rise and bare your chest, face those who would attack you, be strong, give no ground. If you defeat them, do not brag like a loudmouth, If they beat you, don't run home and lie down to cry. Keep some measure in your joy—or in your sadness during crisis—that you may understand man's up-and-down life.”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

“No man, Aisimides, who bows to the mud-slinging mob has ever been capable of profound pleasures.”

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“Maybe you will be able to rebuild everything you have lost. But time, my friend, is always ticking. And remember, no matter what you do, you will never be able to win it back again.”

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Book:Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

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“If you irritate the wound, Perikles, no man in our city will enjoy the festivities. These men were washed under by the thudding seawaves, and the hearts in our chest are swollen with pain. Yet against this incurable misery, the gods give us the harsh medicine of endurance. Sorrows come and go, friend, and now they strike us and we look with horror on the bleeding sores, yet tomorrow others will mourn the dead. I tell you, hold back your feminine tears and endure.”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

“A life of doing nothing is good for old men, especially if they are simple in their ways, or stupid, or inane in their endless blabber as old men tend to be.”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

“Let brawling waves beat his ship against the shore, and have the mop-haired Thracians take him naked at Salmydessos, and he will suffer a thousand calamities as he chews the bread of slaves. His body will stiffen in freezing surf as he wrestles with slimy seaweed, and his teeth will rattle like a helpless dog, flopped on his belly in the surge, puking out the brine. Let me watch him grovel in mud—for the wrong he did me: as a traitor he trampled on our good faith, he who was once my comrade.”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

“Go take your cup and walk along the timber deck Of our roaming ship; drain the hollow casks Of all their red wine. How can we stay sober on the watch when all the rest are drunk?”

Willis Barnstone Archilochos

Author:Archilochos

“The guilty man sat among pleasant things under a hanging rock, and from his chair he looked and then the vision faded.”

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Author:Alkman

“It is not Aphrodite but riotous Eros who is playing like a child, scuttling down across the tips of meadow ferns. Please, do not crush them.”

Willis Barnstone Alkman

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“Women of honey-sweet voices, my limbs are weak. They will not bear me. I wish, ah, I wish I were a carefree kingfisher flying over flowering foam with the halcyons—sea-blue holy birds of spring.”

Willis Barnstone Alkman

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