The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Love In Decline
Love in decline
By: jimmy buffett, michael utley, will jennings
1984
Left one in the drizzlin rain
Found one on the mornin plane
Layin out his well-known line
Bought her some gin - that did her in
Now their makin love behind the occupied sing
Chorus:
Just a livin example of love in decline
Lookin so hard and so little time
Goin ninety to nothin and flyin stone blind
Just a livin example of love in decline
Miyama hotel disco bar
He asks if shes a movie star
Her eyes light up theyre going far
No time for a room - it happened too soon
Now theyre makin love in her rent-a-car
Chorus:
Thats just another example of love in decline
Lookin so hard and so little time
Goin ninety to nothin and flyin stone blind
Just a livin example of love in decline
Red-eyed on a midnight flight
Hes a little tired but she looks just right
He asks for dark so she hits the light
Engines whine - seats recline
Theyre makin love till the mornin light
Chorus:
Just a shinin example of love in decline
Lookin so hard and so little time
Goin ninety to nothin and flyin stone blind
Just a livin example of love in decline
Just a livin example of love in decline
Just a livin example of love in decline
song performed by by Jimmy Buffett
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This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
quote by Daniel Yergin
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When In Decline
WHEN IN DECLINE
When in decline
I write and write,
The more I do
The less – real life.
Inside I am too disturbed,
I have lost the rhythm
I have only- words.
I force myself
Like now undone
I cannot write
As I once loved.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.
quote by Franz von Papen
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Unusually Uncertain
Things are getting better,
Except of course they’re not.
The bailouts have worked miracles
with business gone to pot.
The Nation should experience
Slow growth or slow decline.
We should know soon, unless we don’t-
I can’t make up my mind.
Over in the Eurozone it’s Deutschland uber alles
If Greeks would work like Germans
I’d be sure this market rallies.
If P.I.G.S. escape the barnyard-
We’ll face ruin in our time.
We should know soon, unless we don’t
I can't make up my mind.
Greenspan always soothed my fears,
inchoate though he was.
Bernanke, on the other hand,
Clearly knows not what he does.
Yen and dollar parity will hasten our decline.
Quantitative easing is addictive he will find.
Unusually uncertain is a very scary line!
Irrational Exuberance? I’ll take that any time.
P.I.G.S>: Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain
poem by John F. McCullagh
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The Mind Denies Its Own Decline
THE MIND DENIES ITS OWN DECLINE
The mind denies its own decline
It refuses to try to remember with difficulty and imprecision
A poem it once would have recalled easily and exactly-
It instead lets itself go somewhere else-
But on reflection it understands
Dying goes on inside even when denied -
The mind is still the mind but it is not as good as it was
And the body works more slowly too.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites...
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn in Commencement Address at Harvard University (8 June 1978)
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Writing
Word-lit dreams
Waxed colourful
Waning to a blank decline
Recuperate, wax again
Psychedelically perfuming
Metaphor, simile, metre
Rhetorically cut, collect syncopating
Yet blank decline once again
Unthematic, dissatisfactory
Seeking materials waxing the thickest
Nature, man-heterodox, orthodox
Stories, history
Domestic complexity, social perplexity
Repeating, repeating
Dreams-word-lit true
poem by Indira Renganathan
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Sky Is Losing (the Fight Not Of Strength Of Will)
the clouds used to be a sign not of reluctincy
of freedom and passing of the plauge of sireny yet we decline yeah
WHO IS BIGGA WHO IS STRONGER
Die Die Die cant u be wronger?
the sky aint over us for much longer
as the fire spreads
the sky is back to dead
you fell the burn of are own faith like a smack with no face
...to retreive to accept the lesson are we all decieved by are faith
WHO IS BIGGA WHO IS STRONGER
Die Die DIe cant be wronger?
the sky aint over us for much longer
the idealism of the dying omissoin of the dying
not the gernarations to inherit the land yes its crying
yet we decline from the confines of are mind and see
WHO IS BIGGA WHO IS STRONGER
the sky is over for much longer
WHO IS BIGGA WHO IS STRONGER
the sky is over for much longer
WHO IS BIGGA WHO IS STRONGER
the sky is over for much longer
the clouds used to be a sign not of reluctincy
of freedom and passing of the plauge of sireny yet we decline
poem by Solomon Tankian
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Rosemarys Wine
Written by neil diamond
And her eyes
Hurt the way they do
Almost like theyd seen
Almost like they knew
And her words
Soft as they could be
Tied me to her soul
And couldnt set me free
And the night
That held us in its arms
It held us once again
But even then
I knew this time
That I would decline
Sweet rosemarys wine
Lately i
Seem to be inclined
More to being cold
Less to being kind
And I suppose
That Ive been less than true
Being what I am
What was I to do?
So I drink
The sweetness of her soul
And drink it once again
But even then
I guess Id known
That I would decline
Sweet rosemarys wine
song performed by by Neil Diamond
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Decline of Life
School days seemed
to last for ever,
when in the spring-
time of our life.
Friends so many
we had as young
people, we were
just gilded youth.
We descended into
the summer time
of our youth,
dreams of hope.
Marriage came
for some,
others passed by,
life went on anyhow.
Life is like
a freeway,
going by so,
fast.
Fall of our life
has arrived on time,
as were working
harder than ever.
Decline of life
is moving toward
us, with no hope
of stopping it.
Sooner or later
we all reach
this place
in the road of life.
Retired are we
now, finding things
to do in this
winter time of life.
Decline of life
is here on schedule,
the winter is over,
and so are we.
Untitled: Figure which has long dwelt in the coolness of sinister stone
Figure which has long dwelt in the coolness of sinister stone
Opens the pale mouth sounding
Round owl's eyes - sounding gold.
Those found the cave of the forest decayed and empty
The shadow of a doe in the rotten branches
At the border of the spring the darkness of his childhood.
Long at the forest border a bird sings your decline
The anxious showers of your brown coat;
The shadow of the owl appears in the rotten branches.
Long at the forest border a bird sings your decline
The anxious showers of your blue coat
The shadow of the mother appears in the spiky grass.
Long at the forest border a bird sings your decline
The anxious showers of your black coat
The shadow of the black horse appears in the mirror of the spring.
poem by Georg Trakl
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Oily Water
LEAD IN ME AND ME IN WATER
DANGLING IN MY WORD
I SWALLOWED TO MUCH OILY WATER
IT KEEPS SLIPPING DOWN MY SPINE
IN A SENSE OF SELF DECLINE
GROWING FAT ON SOUND
IT'S ONLY AN EARLY MORNING DREAM
AND THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE ALRIGHT
[CHORUS]
MY HEAD IS FULL OF SUSPICION
I'M COMING HOME SOMETIME
I'VE SWALLOWED TOO MUCH OILY WATER
IT KEEPS SLIPPING DOWN MY SPINE
IN A SENSE OF SELF IN DECLINE
LYING ON MY BACK
IT'S ONLY AN EARLY MORNING DREAM
AND SO THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE ALRIGHT
[CHORUS]
song performed by by Blur from Modern Life Is Rubbish
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I decline to accept the end of man.
quote by William Faulkner
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Falling Signs For Nations
Browsing through history
Observations reveal
A nation bound for depravity
Loses its political will
In degeneration of morals
In language erosion
Departing from the spiritual
And absence of direction
Engrossed in much hatred
Breeding violence
Not of peace instead
But discouraged citizens.
Focusing on wars
Investing in costly weapons
Decline is not very far
Power blinds a nation.
History has an ugly way
For itself to be repeating
These visible signs today
Show many countries falling.
'The field of doom bears death as its harvest.'
(Aeschylus)
Copyright Cynthia Buhain Baello
February 24,2010
Philippines
poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
quote by Ezra Pound
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The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
quote by Jacques Delors
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Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.
quote by Penelope Spheeris
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