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I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
quote by Vladimir Kramnik
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One who Explores to Adventure
Identify it.
With attempts to describe it.
Let others decide its worth and value.
And leave it to be debated.
To take sides is not advisable.
Or initiate to influence an outcome.
Whatever results from your discovery,
Take pride in the fact of that!
And from it walk away,
With a fast pacing done.
One who explores to adventure,
Seldom does it to hear...
The flip flopping of lips.
Or the sprewing coming from tongues.
One who explores to adventure,
Seldom does it to hear...
The flip flopping of lips.
Or the sprewing coming from tongues.
One identifies it.
With attempts to describe it.
With a letting of others,
Decide its worth and value.
To leave it to be debated.
Knowing...
That the taking of sides is not advisable.
Or initiating an influence of an outcome.
To be accused for what others do,
Is not the position for one who pioneers.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Mediocrity Is Not An Effort That Succeeds
I do not pursue a challenge with you.
No.
Not at all.
I am on a quest,
To outdo 'my' best!
And having me to critique,
My own efforts made...
I wouldn't wish this kind of pressure,
On anyone else.
You should hear some of the things I say!
I am too forgiving of others' attempts.
And much too strict...
When accepting what I believe,
Is a commitment to achieve...
What I deem for myself as 'sheer' mediocrity.
And mediocrity is not an effort that succeeds.
Not for me as a motivator,
Pushing towards a direction that pleases.
It is for me an acceptance of procrastination.
And I have already given myself accolades for that.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen in Emma
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Simple, Seldom and Sad
Simple, seldom and sad
We are;
Alone on the Halibut Hills
Afar,
With sweet mad Expressions
Of old
Strangely beautiful
So we're told
By the Creatures that Move
In the sky
And Die
On the night when the Dead Trees
Prance and Cry.
Sensitive, seldom and sad -
Sensitive, seldom and sad -
Simple, seldom and sad
Are we
When we take our path
To the purple sea -
With mad, sweet Expressions
Of Yore,
Strangely beautiful,
Yea, and More
On the Night of all Nights
When the sky
Streams by
In rags, while the Dead Trees
Prance and Cry,
sensitive, seldom and sad -
sensitive, seldom and sad.
poem by Mervyn Peake
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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
quote by Lorna Luft
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That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
quote by Mario Monti
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Seamless Fit
Whatever that was you were,
And thought I didn't see...
I saw the moment you appeared.
To disappear instantly.
Believing yourself to be faster,
Than what I can observe.
Just because I do not acknowledge it.
Or belabor a spoken wish to have clarity...
My mind has captured its vision.
And clarification with the patience I give it,
Has seldom deluded my ability...
To put pieces together to make a seamless fit.
I can pretend not to see what's going on,
In the basement of mansions behind thick stone walls.
Or someone who attempts to fake an existence.
But reeks with sleeping with demons!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Afraid To Love
So seldom does she think of love
and seldom does she want to.
It isn't that she's cold or bad,
it's that she cannot hold you.
If she were to allow herself
to hunger for your kiss,
her heart would be like jelly
and many beats would miss.
So seldom she allows herself
this pleasure and this pain
for she would surely die for love
and cannot take the strain.
If you would promise faithfully
to be her true, true friend.
To comfort her and cherish her
and be there at her end.
But life is such a fickle beast
and even though she cares.
She cannot, no she dare not
offer love and be ensnared.
poem by Ruth Walters
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
quote by Lord Halifax
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Seldom ‘Can't’
Seldom ‘can't,’
Seldom ‘don't’;
Never ‘shan't,’
Never ‘won't.’
poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
quote by Barbara Smith
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Push Me...
Slow attempts of suicide
Cuts go deeper each time
More pills down my throat,
You push me.
Wanna see how far I'll go?
Slow attempts of suicide
Driving me to my limits,
The insanity of my mind breaking
reality, pushing me a little more...
Soon you will see how far you
FUCKING PUSHED ME!
poem by Courtney Rodda
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Translation of Ancient Epigrams
From Latin, Greek, to English presses,
‘tis rare that e’er the pith impresses.
Th’original oft effervesces
with sparkle, spite, delight, mistresses,
Spartan prowess, Roman fortresses,
maids like Mycilla, bought braids, tresses.
Who, living, the true jest possesses,
is past: - and all the rest is guesses.
Most amateur attempts are messes,
betray the sense, so each depresses.
Stray copies seldom seem successes,
translation tritely turned distresses,
and everybody who professes
ability thereat the less is!
poem by Jonathan Robin
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The true blessing of spring
when the lark, the nightingale and thrush sing
is like the most sincere friends that seldom meet
or maybe each other seldom in goodbye greet
as it’s a seasonal thing which is reoccurring.
quote by by Gert Strydom
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The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean -
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
quote by by Roger Gordon
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
quote by Lord Chesterfield
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Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful.