I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/ednam10.txt

On satoja paikkoja, joissa pelkään käydä
niin ne huokuvat sinun muistoasi.
Ja kun unohtaneena saavun johonkin hiljaiseen paikkaan
jonne hän ei koskaan astunut,
missä koskaan eivät hänen kasvonsa loistaneet.
Sanon: ”Täällä ei ole muistoa hänestä!”
Ja taas seison mielettömänä, taas hänet muistan.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Suom. Risto Ahti

Dirge without Music
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, --- but the best is lost.

The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

"On yhtä kiusallista pitää palvelijaa kuin olla palvelija."

A Sane Revolution
D.H. Lawrence

If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
don't make it in ghastly seriousness,
don't do it in deadly earnest,
do it for fun.

Don't do it because you hate people,
do it just to spit in their eye.

Don't do it for the money,
do it and be damned to the money.

Don't do it for equality,
do it because we've got too much equality
and it would be fun to upset the apple-cart
and see which way the apples would go a-rolling.

Don't do it for the working classes.
Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracies on our own
and kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.

Don't do it, anyhow, for international Labour.
Labour is the one thing a man has had too much of.
Let's abolish labour, let's have done with labouring!
Work can be fun, and men can enjoy it; then it's not labour.
Let's have it so! Let's make a revolution for fun!

VIERAS MIES

   Olin kaikkialla vieras mies,
   he katsoivat minua pitkään.
   Joka paikasta halusin paeta pois,
   mutta minne ikänä pakenin,
   olin sielläkin vieras mies.
   Koko maailman piirissä minulle
   ei ollut rauhan sijaa.
   Ja minua minussa raahasi
   joku minulle vieras mies.

- Uuno Kailas
http://pge.rastko.net/dirs/pge/pge05/100006/e100006.txt

"In forest dark or glade beferned,
no blade of grass shall go unturned.
Let those that have the daylight spurned,
tread not where this green lamp has burned"
- Alan Moore, Swamp Thing #61

"There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."

Zen

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali

Magic man done it

''Katsoin kerran videota. Se oli nimeltään Maxell E240. Se oli aika tylsä.''

Swedes Trust IKEA More than the Church
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,450254,00.html

''Taiteilijalle kaikki on osa suurta testiä.''
''Parempi kurkku purkissa kuin purkki kurkussa.''
''Löysää kelaa ja pidä ittes veneessä.''

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/auden/auden5.html

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
- John Donne

"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state."
- Mark Twain

Bas Rutten Street Defense

Silicon Valley has an old saying: Don't bet against the Internet. To which Zennström and Friis clearly hope to add a Scandinavian corollary, with roots going back all the way to the Middle Ages: Don't bet against the Vikings.
- Wired: Why Joost Is Good for TV

Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching.