Vulture
St. Thomas Aquinas thought
That vultures were lesbians
And fertilized by the wind.
If you seek the facts of life,
Papist intellectuals
Can be very misleading.
poem by Kenneth Rexroth from A Bestiary (1956)
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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March
There's a wind blowing
Cold through the corridors,
A ghost-wind,
The flapping of defeated wings,
A hell-fantasy
From meadows damned
To eternal April
And listening, listening
To the wind
I hear
The throat-rattle of dying men,
From whose ears oozes
Foamy blood,
Throttled in a brothel.
I see brightly
In the wind vacancies
Saint Thomas Aquinas
And
Poetry blossoms
Excitingly
As the first flower of truth.
poem by Patrick Kavanagh
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Vultures!
Vultures not aware that they are torturers,
Eagle may assume that they are simple predators,
Circling above the ground, enjoying the breezy wind,
looking down with deep eyes only for one thing.
When their prey is spotted, the concentration get centered,
Eyes on that prey, the thought on that prey,
Wings stop to swing before a forceful delay,
Legs, claws and the nails just land on that display.
Vultures are there in you and I,
When the business man looks for the business,
When the doctors wait for the patients,
When the lawyers wait for the clients,
When the leaders wait for the votes,
Vultures are everywhere in them, you and I.
poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Jabberwocky Redux
After reading too much Aquinas
Would an aphid reside in an onager's ear
if the onager's master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a civet leapt out of a tree?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.
Would an addax in Denmark gyrate
if an emu in Sweden bore freight?
Or an eland in Chile complain
if jerboas in Goa refrain?
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.
For really I thought ‘twas the onager taught
the aphid the tenor of Twi, and that
Gascony scops with Norwegians eloped
when Danes had lepers to tea.
You doubt it? Read Thomas and see.
poem by Donal Mahoney
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Beware of the person of one book.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Beware the man of one book.
quote by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
quote by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
quote by Thomas Aquinas
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.
quote by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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