For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
In Tones Of Nonconformity
Systematically,
And with a pinch of strategy...
An addiction to mediocrity condoned,
Has replaced the drive to achieve...
A higher state of mental activity.
In fact,
Being illiterate and lacking in intelligence...
Is as welcomed as acquiring skills to deceive.
If one happens to live,
In certain communities...
Where the acceptance of nonsense,
Brings one a life of ease and thoughtlessness.
Cynical?
Those expressions have long been dismissed,
As pessimistic!
And somehow pessimism today seems to be the goal,
By the ones who chose to ostracized the ones...
Who spoke in tones of nonconformity.
And nonconformity?
Everyone seems to be caught in the act of it.
They call them activists now.
Prior to this...
Those with the same ideals to awaken others,
Were labelled militants or agitating nationalists.
And everything else derogatory to ignore.
And these were the people making attempts to save humanity!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
quote by Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I Have No Desire To See Our Worlds Collide
You have always said to me...
I lived in my own world.
And I did not object.
In fact...
I accepted what was 'then',
Your way to address...
My nonconformity.
And today you say to me,
I should express more empathy...
To you,
As 'your' reality...
Has increasingly ceased.
But I...
Have no desire,
To see our worlds collide.
Nor am I wishing,
To seek an approval that accepts my insights.
Just know this...
You have been right all along.
And I wish to keep things as is.
For me your assessment,
Has awarded me with benefits.
And I...
Have no desire,
To see our worlds collide.
Goodbye!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Be Not Indignant
Be not indignant, at the suns descent,
The golden moon is heaven sent.
Don't show displeasure when he sun departs,
The moon is made for youthful hearts.
Don't let your displeasure, overpower you,
The full moon comes and it is blue.
Don't let your resentment pique your ire,
Let the full moon stoke your fire.
When the sun departs, do not be miffed,
Just let the moon your spirits lift.
The sun and the moon, both have their place,
If you let their love, shine on your face.
4/19/11 Alton Texas
poem by Juan Olivarez
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Just For Kicks
I imagine soon,
I will be found guilty...
For having a thought.
An independent one.
One that reeks of a nonconformity.
And spiced with my obsession,
For comprehension and clarity.
And just for kicks...
I am going to admit,
I have delusions of being conscious.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I Call and Discover
I call the man on the other side of the world,
His name means peace is for my pleasure.
I direct the profession of some other world,
Like a spaceman has made his treasure.
I make pacts with giants on other worlds,
Deceiving the birds of the entire measure.
I concentrate and study diligently the next world,
So that I find in the Hereafter a displeasure.
May the mind work like a volcano and exert
The triumph of my manhood you discover.
poem by Naveed Akram
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
quote by Bill Vaughan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity
quote by Eric Hoffer
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Pity Partyers Coming In From Everywhere
Whose pity is this party for?
If this is an invitational event,
I will not be attending.
I realize many I am acquainted with,
Will be there.
And from what I understand...
There is an attempt to make this an annual affair?
With pity partyers coming in from everywhere?
I think my temperment might offend.
And I am feeling too 'up' to be 'down' this weekend.
And I am not prepared to defend my nonconformity.
Or how it all began.
But thanks again for the thought and your best wishes.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Egyptian Revolution 2011
After 30 years
of silence and repression,
here they march on the streets
raising their voices
of discontent and neglect.
Here on the streets
the pros and cons in
the conflict meet
And the battle for
each other's interests.
is being waged.
Piles of stones and
stones after stones
are hurled at each other
as fists, and the more
powerful with their whips
and machineries of bullets
reign on the streets.
The unfortunates are counted
among the dead and wounded
The journalists, too, cannot
escape from blows and whips.
And yet they continue to gather
in broad day light and nights
dreaming for the rebirth
of their beloved Egypt.
poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
quote by Joe Keenan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
quote by Florenz Ziegfeld
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Flying Slave
The night is dark, and keen the air,
And the Slave is flying to be free;
His parting word is one short prayer;
O God, but give me Liberty!
Farewell-farewell;
Behind I leave the whips and chains,
Before me spreads sweet Freedom's plains.
One star shines in the heavens above,
That guides him on his lonely way;-
Star of the North-how deep his love
For thee, thou star of Liberty!
Farewell-farewell;
Behind he leaves the whips and chains,
Before him spreads sweet Freedom's plains.
poem by Anonymous Americas
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
quote by Frances Burney
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Some Other Somebody
Somebody's horse has finished his feed,
Somebody's saddle is on;
But never a nigger the tracks can read,
Or know where Somebody's gone.
Over the rails and up the creek,
As soon as the sun goes down:
How is it every night this week
That Somebody's off to town?
Grass is dewy, and overhead
Evening stars are bright;
And startled wallabies hear the tread
Of galloping hoofs at night.
Through the scrub and over the plain
Somebody's galloping fast;
Never a pull on the bridle rein
Till the town lights show at last.
Somebody's horse has whips o' work -
Whips o' work of late -
Since Somebody's brown was seen in town
Tied to Somebody's gate.
But the wherefore why Somebody rides,
And the track that the brown horse goes,
Only his rider (and one besides:
Some other Somebody) knows!
poem by Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Hazardous Anger
Tell me why hazards enter the life of anger:
Openly, the danger of nastiness is a displeasure.
poem by Naveed Akram
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The Blue Nowhere
Afloat and adrift
In the “blue nowhere”
Amongst nebulous nothingness
Yet anxious to share
To dwell in anonymity
Yet not in close proximity
Giving unusual free rein
To things usually unshared
Words put in prose
sent into the blue
In poems that are proposed
To be read by you
Anonymity is blindness
Nonconformity a kindness
So we cast our emotions
On ethereal oceans
Set afloat and adrift
In the “blue nowhere'
poem by David Whalen
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth.
quote by Antonio de Mendoza
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Kinky
(ronnie hawkins)
I had me a wearied dream, seen me a wearied scene,
When I seen what I saw, couldnt sit still,
Nero was kissing on buffalo bill.
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll one time for me.
When it gets too kinky for the rest of the world
Its getting just right for me.
There was rhinestone whips and midgets,
Quasimodo was jerking in hard.
I seen a tribe of pygmies doing their thing
Riding in on saint-bernards.
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll one time for me.
When it gets too kinky for the rest of the world
Its getting just right for me.
Whew!
There was shetland ponies and bulldogs,
Jockstraps and cowboy boots,
Forty-seven miles of tennis shoe tongue
And thirteen pair of shoes.
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll one time for me.
When it gets too kinky for the rest of the world
Its getting just right for me.
Let it roll!
Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll one time for me.
When it gets too kinky for the rest of the world
Its getting just right for me.
song performed by by Kinky Friedman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Be not true
I don’t want people to be true to me.
Yes, they must please me with words and gesture.
Yes, they must hide their hate and displeasure.
I must be happy though it’s a folly.
22.09.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!