The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
quote by Francis Bacon
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
quote by Robert Smithson
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The most lasting monuments are doubtless paper-monuments.
Monuments
In our lands are monuments
for the dear and departed.
Some are for some daring deeds;
others are put in someone’s favourite place,
hoping someone else will enjoy
all the beauty that they gazed upon.
Some monuments serve as a warning,
erected about some evil deed
to remember all that perished.
So the next time you pass a monument
read the inscription there,
learn a little of its presentation.
Become a little wiser to its stature
and the one it is dedicated to,
for you never know in the future
someone may erect a monument to honour you.
24 September 2008
poem by David Harris
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The pudding that smells anthropological
My singsong beloved grumbles these days
As she needs to make a pudding for an Exhibition
And she expects a new idea.
Then I said; ' Try this method darling!
Make layers of all the ethnics in the World in their distinguished colors
And the top leave a hard icing with symbolic monuments of the tyranny rulers,
It should be a strong one like iron otherwise the monuments sink in the pudding and get discolored.
If you want you can named it as Dwarfs and Giants.'
* To my friend George Murdock in gratitude as he firmly believes that water is colorless.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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A Nice Day
Walk the steps to old monuments
White silk clouds
Awareness of the joy within
Awareness of the soldier
Awareness of the homeless
Old man feeds pigeons
His park bench on a groomed lawn
This blue sky has answers
An old friend is taking photos
Everything I am is here
The sun on my face
Breeze through my hair
Monument of a civil war general
A real killer of Indians
Worked for the railroad
Helped clear the west
Native Americans in nameless graves
No monuments
This killer gets streets named after him
The rich get their names on libraries
I don’t buy any of it
I’m glad it’s a nice day
poem by Joseph Narusiewicz
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Power
power has built itself
permanently on citadels
you, an ant, cannot take
the place of
their monuments,
look for wood, conspire
with the friendship of the
termites,
the timid worms,
live on dungs, and
begin the song of sorrow
time listens
the storm comes,
tsunamis multiply,
earthquakes, and
floods,
you, the ant, takes only a leaf
to survive,
a grain of rice
will be too much,
a dew for survival,
soon the citadels of power
crushes to the ground
including the king and queen
and their servants,
they all rot,
and you, the ant,
and termites long hiding
on rotten wood,
and worms surviving
on the humus of dung
shall build
for a beginning,
a hill, a path,
a throne of dung.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Reflections Of Joy
The flower in the garden smiled-
The multifarious birds when chirped
When given alms to an ill- clad
Or received an infinitesimal unexpected gift
They all gave joy
Some flickering, some solidifying
But all eroded in distant horizon
None remained in eternity.
What glitters now are reflections
That sometimes gave joy
Indeed made the day
Their degrees, qualities, quantities varied
Did the same event fetch every time the same joy?
They escalated, became zero, decreased
The everlasting joy of reality
That abides in selfless services and creativity
Which freely stand as monuments of ageless intellect
Monuments of its own magnificence
And will be ever things of beauty, the joy forever-
Admiration, reverence, tributes always hostility never.
poem by Green Peace
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The Monuments Men [John Wayne]
Bill Murray, Bob Balaban
from The Monuments Men (2014)
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The Monuments Men [Putting the Team Together]
George Clooney, Matt Damon
from The Monuments Men (2014)
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Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
quote by Frank Wedekind
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When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
quote by Stanislaw Lec
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
quote by Kin Hubbard
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.
quote by Joel Kotkin
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
quote by John L. Motley
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Sweat of labourers,
Taxes of the commoners,
Well-built monuments.
haiku by MBJ Pancras
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Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
quote by Lew Wallace
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The Monuments Men [Monuments Men Radio]
George Clooney, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin
from The Monuments Men (2014)
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