War —
Witter Bynner
“Fools, fools, fools,
Your blood is hot to-day.
It cools
When you are clay.
It joins the very clod
Wherein you look at God,
Wherein at last you see
The living God
The loving God,
Which was your enemy.”
—Witter Bynner.
“The vast majority of today’s negative-yield bonds are in Europe and Japan. One of the biggest questions surrounds whether negative rates will reach the U.S. This question takes me back to my immediate response to Ian’s suggestion that I write this memo: nobody knows, and certainly not me. When something hasn’t happened in the past, it’s impossible to be sure you know how it’ll end up. Different people will express opinions on this subject with differing degrees of confidence. Yet I remain certain that none of them ‘know.'” –Howard Marks.
I Never Figured How to Get Free
Donika Kelly
“The war was all over my hands.
I held the war and I watched them
die in high-definition. I could watch
anyone die, but I looked away. Still,
I wore the war on my back. I put it
on every morning. I walked the dogs
and they too wore the war. The sky
overhead was clear or it was cloudy
or it rained or it snowed, and I was rarely
afraid of what would fall from it. I worried
about what to do with my car, or how
much I could send my great-aunt this month
and the next. I ate my hamburger, I ate
my pizza, I ate a salad or lentil soup,
and this too was the war.
At times I was able to forget that I
was on the wrong side of the war,
my money and my typing and sleeping
sound at night. I never learned how
to get free. I never learned how
not to have anyone’s blood
on my own soft hands.”
—Donika Kelly.
“The day you feel like you’ve won, you need to drive out of the parking lot and not come back.”
—Mark V. Hurd.
“Everybody is talking, with a not unnatural excitement, about the wonderful opportunity which broadcasting will give us to send our words to a remote continent. Nobody seems concerned to ask whether we’ve anything to say even to the next street, let alone to the remote continent.”
—G K Chesterton.
“The teacher is allowed to say that twice two is four, not because it is less dogmatic, but because it is less disputed. In other words, education is easy when dogma is universal. It only becomes difficult when men are divided about dogmas.”
—G K Chesterton.
“Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.”
—Andrew Vachss.
