Poetic Outlaws
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The outlaws of poetry and the written word.
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“The earth is dead...We people are just worms on top of it, worms on its fat, revolting carcass, eating its entrails and all its poisons... Nothing can help us, we were born rotten... There you have it!" ~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Or it means you haven’t lived with vitality and danger and your untainted face is a replica of your unlived life.
looking younger than your age is actually a big flex
“Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.” — Julius…
“Jahwé, the Judaic God, began by being one god among many others—the God of the people of Israel, revealed among the thunders of the tempest on Mount Sinai. But he was so jealous that he demanded that worship should be paid to him alone, and it was by way of monocultism that the…
“Good and Evil principles coexist and mingle in God, as they coexist and mingle in the world… To attribute goodness and purity to the creator of becoming is to abandon all comprehension of the majority of events, especially the most important one: the Creation. God could not…
“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.” ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Why do such large numbers of people refuse to vote?
“Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.” ― Aldous Huxley
“According to Sumerian mythology, the flood was the punishment the gods inflicted on man because of the noise he made. —What would I not give to know how they will reward him for today’s racket?” — Emil Cioran
We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart. ~ Bill…
Not only Western man but "modern man" in general finds himself enclosed within a darkened spiritual condition, akin to the state of the nafs al-awwal (the lower soul), becoming increasingly vulnerable to the influence of Shayṭān, understood here not merely as a theological…
"What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity." ~ Hermann Hesse
"Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be…
Happy birthday to the late great Hunter S. Thompson, born on this day in 1937. “Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies…
“History has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines” ~ Paul Tillich
“The question of the existence of God can neither be asked nor answered… It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it. God is being itself, not a being… As the power of being, God transcends every being and also the totality of beings – the world……
Atheists are a generic blob of group-think. If you’re an atheist, I know with 90% certainty your position on a wide variety of political and social issues. You’re about as individualistic as the Borg.
"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum...They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of…
There's a terror in knowing what the world is about. ― David Bowie
“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.” —W. Somerset Maugham
