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  • 318WOZ
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    Kb83, I appreciate your unabashed self-promotion. I think it's no problem here.

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  • kb83
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    More unabashed self-promotion. I added line breaks.

    "What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?"

    — Wystan Hugh Auden

    kb83
    July 15, 2022, 2:06 pm


    A tenured professor of poetry
    Sat under a spreading balboa tree
    Said she to her class,
    As they sat on the grass,
    "How lovely it can be to know a tree."

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  • Eureka
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    "Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil." — Henry Van Dyke

    Marboy
    March 16, 2017, 12:01 pm
    ... A kitchen is blessed as home's perfect nest and having an onion to boil.

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  • kb83
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    Nietszche is smiling. Thanks, LLapp!

    I don't know if this is permitted, but I think it would be better to reverse lines 3 and 4, i.e.

    "...She loved to quote Pascal
    And danced like a rascal,
    ... Now she's tenured and done with that phase."
    Last edited by kb83; 08-12-2024, 10:36 PM.

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  • Eureka
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    "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." — Blaise Pascal

    dovid1946
    June 2, 2015, 9:03 am
    There was once a stripper who called herself 'BLAZE PASCAL'. She was probably some philosophy major who couldn't get a job philosophizing.​

    kb83
    March 14, 2016, 7:29 am
    There once was a stripper named Blaze, Her philosophy did all amaze, She danced like a rascal, And loved to quote Pascal,

    LLapp
    February 6, 2019, 7:32 pm
    . . . Now she's tenured and done with that phase.

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  • kb83
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    I wrote a limerick to this, inspired by Llapp’s information about Trotsky. But I thought surely it would appear in this comment thread, but it did not, so here it is (I saved it):

    "Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. " — Leon Trotsky

    kb83
    April 21, 2014, 9:27 am

    who is the "him"?
    tskaggs6
    September 24, 2014, 11:34 am

    I would guess Stalin. They didn't get on all that well you know.
    kb83
    October 15, 2015, 3:03 am

    I verified your guess, tskaggs6. Well done! It was in an unfinished biography of Stalin by Trotsky.
    LLapp
    January 18, 2017, 3:34 pm

    'He never talked about politics. He was a schnorrer! All he cared about was who would pay for his lunch!" - My grandfather, remembering Lev Bronstein during his Lower East Side days
    Persephone59
    December 12, 2017, 9:26 pm

    I understand he was also lovers with Frida Kahlo, and moved in the same circles as she and her husband, Diego Rivera.
    LLapp
    July 15, 2018, 5:05 pm

    He was deeply steeped in the arts. My grandpa knew him as part of his theater-going crowd.
    Eureka
    November 17, 2022, 6:44 pm

    Amazing, LLapp!

    There was a young fellow named Trotsky,
    A Communist chap, not a Nazi,
    "From each who can feed,
    To me what I need,
    It's y'all who are paying, it's not me"

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  • kb83
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    Here's another self-promotion. I added line breaks.

    "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." — Warren Spahn

    kb83
    March 6, 2018, 3:57 am

    Here's a haiku:

    Hitting is timing.
    Pitching is breaking timing.
    All the rest is spin.



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  • LLapp
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    ^ Kb83, if I had written that, I would have a hard time not posting it myself. It’s a delightful rhyme, and, given random quote selection and difficulty level, many of us would never get to read it otherwise.

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  • kb83
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    At the risk of self-promotion. (I added line breaks)

    "While Australia is superficially referred to as a continental nation, upon closer scrutiny, it is in fact an archipelago."
    — Asher Judah


    kb83
    August 13, 2023, 4:21 pm

    A tourist from old San Diego
    Tried renting a big Winnebago,
    To see all Australia,
    He thought, (inter alia,)
    But it was an archipelago.​

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  • LLapp
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    Thanks . . . I actually kind of cringed when I saw it. But I do like the second line.

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  • kb83
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    Nice, Llapp! The rhythm reminds me of one of Piet Hein's "grooks."

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  • hrossa
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    This is awesome!

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  • Eureka
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    Hilarious!

    "The man is either mad, or he is making verses." -- Horace

    LLapp
    March 7, 2016, 1:49 pm
    My solve time was bad, and that makes me mad;
    but what's even worse is, I'm still making verses.

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  • LLapp
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    More on Pope's syntax-twisting, with more carriage returns added for the poetry.


    'Tis not enough your counsel still be true;
    Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
    — Alexander Pope


    Disturbed1
    August 9, 2019, 3:05 pm
    If there was one person's quotes I could remove from this site, it would be this guy. I'm not sure why. There are a lot of nonsensical quotes on here (I'm looking at you Brault and Beiber), but I cringe every time I see Pope's name.

    kb83
    May 3, 2020, 9:25 pm
    Well, he is required to rhyme in iambic pentameter. Any kernels of wisdom are gravy.

    kb83
    August 10, 2020, 12:56 pm
    Five metric feet start every verse of Pope.
    That wisdom follow, one can only hope.

    writeon
    October 3, 2020, 6:45 am
    What I dislike in most older quotes
    Are archaic words...that gets my goat!

    writeon
    October 4, 2020, 1:14 am
    What I dislike in most older quotes
    Are archaic words...that gets my goat!

    kb83
    April 1, 2022, 4:01 pm
    Write on,, writeon.

    rasbury
    April 26, 2023, 12:45 pm
    writeon, what is it you dislike about older quotes?

    kb83
    July 6, 2023, 1:21 pm
    Five metric feet start every verse of Pope.
    That wisdom follow, one can only hope.
    His object bared, he closes with the verb,
    Unwitting cryptogrammers to perturb.​

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  • kb83
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    I love this one, added a carriage return for easier reading.

    "Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."
    — Alexander Pope


    ernests
    August 19, 2020, 4:04 am
    Through twisted syntax and rhymes forc’d we grope
    And thus a poet true is Alex Pope​
    Last edited by kb83; 04-07-2024, 06:16 PM.

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