Thursday, September 23, 2021

Laughing Lhursday*

Fortune favours fools,
or as a German saying goes,
"Die dümmsten Bauern
ernten die dicksten Kartoffeln"
(The dumbest farmers
harvest the biggest potatoes).


Once again
the old saying
offered me great comfort.

And here to put my genius
into the right perspective.


* [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.


Friday, September 17, 2021

Beers & Books CXXXI – Frank O'Connor

"No man is ever as anti-feminist
as a really feminine woman."

Frank O'Connor (17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966)

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Beers & Books CXXX – Bernard MacLaverty

„There's nobody can fix this but yourself.
You are the only one
who can make the changes.“

Bernard MacLaverty *14 September 1942

Beers & Books CXXIX – Dante Aleghieri

                        "I love to doubt as well as know."

*
Divine Comedy
*
"The secret of getting things done is to act!"
*
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
*
"He who sees a need
and waits to be asked for help
is as unkind as if he had refused it."
*
"The hottest places in hell
are reserved for those who,
in time of great moral crisis,
maintain their neutrality.


Dante Aleghieri (1265 – 14 September 1321)

Friday, September 10, 2021

Beers & Books CXXVII – Mary Oliver

It's very important
to write things down instantly,
or you can lose the way
you were thinking out a line.
I have a rule
that if I wake up at 3 in the morning
and think of something, I write it down.
I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

Mary Oliver
(September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019)

Thursday, September 09, 2021

"Massoud Day"

The behavior of the Taliban
as well as their extremist attitudes
do not correspond in any way
with a tolerant Islam.

Ahmad Shah Massoud (2 September 1953 – 9 September 2001)

Monday, September 06, 2021

Beers & Books CXXVI – Andrea Camilleri

Sicily has suffered 13 foreign dominations
from which she has taken both
the best and the worst.


Andrea Camilleri
  (6 September 1926 – 17 July 2019)

Beers & Books CXXV – Carmen Laforet

I write short, my words tight
to the thread of the narrative.



Carmen Laforet (6 September 1921 – 28 February 2004)