Quotes about despise, page 9
Thurso’s Landing
I
The coast-road was being straightened and repaired again,
A group of men labored at the steep curve
Where it falls from the north to Mill Creek. They scattered and hid
Behind cut banks, except one blond young man
Who stooped over the rock and strolled away smiling
As if he shared a secret joke with the dynamite;
It waited until he had passed back of a boulder,
Then split its rock cage; a yellowish torrent
Of fragments rose up the air and the echoes bumped
From mountain to mountain. The men returned slowly
And took up their dropped tools, while a banner of dust
Waved over the gorge on the northwest wind, very high
Above the heads of the forest.
Some distance west of the road,
On the promontory above the triangle
Of glittering ocean that fills the gorge-mouth,
A woman and a lame man from the farm below
Had been watching, and turned to go down the hill. The young
woman looked back,
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poem by Robinson Jeffers
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Canto the Fourth
I.
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs;
A palace and a prison on each hand:
I saw from out the wave her structures rise
As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand:
A thousand years their cloudy wings expand
Around me, and a dying glory smiles
O’er the far times when many a subject land
Looked to the wingèd Lion’s marble piles,
Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!
II.
She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,
Rising with her tiara of proud towers
At airy distance, with majestic motion,
A ruler of the waters and their powers:
And such she was; her daughters had their dowers
From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East
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poem by Byron from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818)
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Nevermind
The war was lost
The treaty signed
I was not caught
I crossed the line
I was not caught
Though many tried
I live among you
Well disguised
I had to leave
My life behind
I dug some graves
You’ll never find
The story’s told
With facts and lies
I had a name
But never mind
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song performed by Leonard Cohen, music by Patrick Leonard, lyrics by Leonard Cohen (2016)
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
classic quote by Virginia Woolf
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
classic quote by Otto Weininger
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
What do you despise By this are you truly known.
quote by Frank Herbert
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I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
quote by Marty Robbins
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What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
quote by Frank Herbert
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