Amo el Amor de los Marineros - Pablo Neruda
The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
Nuptial Sleep - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
If - Rudyard Kipling
Cerraron los ojos - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Volverán las oscuras golondrinas - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Sábados - Jorge Luis Borges
Ausencia - Jorge Luis Borges
Adesso che il tempo - Patrizia Cavalli
The Little Boy Found - William Blake
Who will cry for the little boy? - Antwone Fisher
The Summer Day - Mary Oliver
Silent Noon - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
Le cimetière marin - Paul Valèry
Yo soy un hombre sincero - José Martí
Ulysses - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Una rosa amarilla - Jorge Luis Borges
Otro poema de los dones - Jorge Luis Borges
Fragmentos de un evangelio apócrifo - Jorge Luis Borges
Proteo - Jorge Luis Borges
Silencio - Francisco Luis Bernárdez
Rime 151 - Michelangelo Buonarroti
Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale - Eugenio Montale
Lines Written during a Period of Insanity - William Cowper
Elogio de la rosa - Giambattista Marino
A poison tree - William Blake
Wild nights - Wild nights! - Emily Dickinson
For Grace, After a Party - Frank O'Hara
Les Etiquettes jaunes - Frank O'Hara
Easement - Jameson Fitzpatrick
Regreso - Juana de Ibarbourou
Poema 15 (Me gusta cuando callas) - Pablo Neruda
It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise than to listen to the song of fools. For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless. [Ecclesiastes 7:5-6]
You have seen someone who is hasty in his words — there is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 29:20]
Do not be rash with your mouth or hasty in your heart to bring up a matter before God, for God is in heaven and you are on Earth! Therefore, let your words be few. Just as dreams come when there are many cares, so the rash vow of a fool occurs when there are many words. [Ecclesiastes 5:2-3]
Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. [Matthew 6:21]
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn't there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you more valuable than they are? And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life? Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these! And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won't he clothe you even more, you people of little faith? So then, don't worry saying, 'What will we eat?', or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own. [Matthew 6:25-34]
The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up 1,000 burnt sacrifices on the altar there. One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell me what I should give you.” Solomon replied, “You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number. So give your servant a discerning mind so he can make judicial decisions for your people and distinguish right from wrong. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours.” The Lord was pleased that Solomon made this request. God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, grant your request and give you a wise and discerning mind superior to that of anyone who has preceded or will succeed you. Furthermore, I am giving you what you did not request—riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation. If you follow my instructions by obeying my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, then I will grant you long life.” Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, and held a feast for all his servants. [1 Kings 3:4-15]
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. [2 Corinthians 3:6]
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. [1 Corinthians 13:2]
Mark 11:12-25 [Jesus Curses a Fig Tree and Clears the Temple Courts]
Luke 15:11-32 [The Parable of the Prodigal Son]
Judges 19 [A Levite and His Concubine]
The Scorpion and the Frog
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do, I will die too."
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"
Replies the scorpion: "It's in my nature..."
Some people can't overcome their nature, even if it works against their interests.
The Cock and the Fox
A Fox was caught in a trap one fine morning, because he had got too near the Farmer's hen house. No doubt he was hungry, but that was not an excuse for stealing. A Cock, rising early, discovered what had happened. He knew the Fox could not get at him, so he went a little closer to get a good look at his enemy.
The Fox saw a slender chance of escape.
"Dear friend," he said, "I was just on my way to visit a sick relative, when I stumbled into this string and got all tangled up. But please do not tell anybody about it. I dislike causing sorrow to anybody, and I am sure I can soon gnaw this string to pieces."
But the Cock was not to be so easily fooled. He soon roused the whole hen yard, and when the Farmer came running out, that was the end of Mr. Fox.
The wicked deserve no aid.
The Ant
Once upon a time, the ant used to be human -- a farmer who, not content with his own yield, kept an envious eye on his neighbor's harvest and stole it. Zeus was angered by his greed and changed him into the insect that we call ant. But, even though his body was altered, his character was not. To this day he still traverses the fields collecting other people's wheat and barley and storing it up for himself.
Even a severe punishment doesn't change people who, by nature, are bad characters.
The Ugly Slave Girl and Aphrodite
A master was in love with an ugly and ill-natured slave girl. With the money that he gave her, she adorned herself with sparkling ornaments and rivalled her own mistress. She made continual sacrifices to Aphrodite, goddess of love, and beseeched her to make her beautiful. But Aphrodite appeared to the slave in a dream and said to her: "I don't want to make you beautiful, because I am angry with this man for thinking that you already are."
One must not become blinded by pride when one is enriched by shameful means, especially when one is of low birth and without beauty.
The Goat and the Donkey
There was a man who kept a goat and a donkey. The goat was jealous of the donkey because he was given more to eat, so she made a deceptive proposal to the donkey, under the guise of giving him advice. "Look," said the goat, "you are always being punished, constantly having to turn the millstone or carry burdens on your back. Why don't you pretend to have a seizure and throw yourself into a ditch?" The donkey trusted the goat and did what she told him to do. As a result of the fall, the donkey was badly scraped and bruised. The donkey's owner summoned a doctor to recommend a remedy. The doctor said that the donkey could be cured by a potion made from the lungs of a goat. So they slaughtered the unfortunate goat, who was thus trapped in her own snare while the donkey was saved.
People who lay traps for others bring about their own destruction.
Amor meus, pondus meum; illo feror, quocumque feror. [My love is my weight, by it I go wherever I go]
Nox et solitudo plenae sunt diabolo. [Night and solitude are full of the devil]
Velut aegri somnia, uanae Finguntur species. [Like a sick man’s dreams, inventing shapeless forms.]
Memento mori.
Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.
Veni, vidi, vici.
Tolle lege, tolle lege.
Festina lente.
I, once, had a girl
Or, should I say, she once had me
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore
There is a light that never goes out - The Smiths
Save me, save me, save me
I'm naked and away from home
Save me - Queen
Y casi sin darse cuenta, alcohólico se volvió
El viejo - La Vela Puerca
Y con el tintinear de tus cien pulseras
Cada vez que te arreglabas el pelo
Supe que mordería la vida entera
Aquel anzuelo
Estalactitas - Jorge Drexler
María, María
Confunde dolor y alegría
María, María - Mercedes Sosa
Media Verónica despierta
La molestó la luna, por la ventana abierta
Media Verónica - Andrés Calamaro
Te perseguiría hasta el sol
Pero hoy es sólo inercia
Y un milenio pasa
Efecto Doppler - Soda Stereo
En la noche, sin querer, sos la manta de mis pies
La Vuelta al Sol - La Vela Puerca
Para vivir hacen falta muchas cosas
Pero sobra lo que no existe más
Lo que no existe más - Andrés Calamaro
Y, si te vas, me voy por los tejados
Como un gato sin dueño
Perdido en el pañuelo de amargura
Que empaña, sin mancharla, tu hermosura
Y Sin Embargo - Joaquín Sabina
Nadie paga sus pecados, no les socorre ni Dios
Esperan la tardecita, ay, se van para la placita
Beben y fuman paco, después oyen regguetón
Porque esperan que en el cielo esté el amor
Que no les diste vos
Cómo Que No? - Onda Vaga
E non esiste paessagio più bello della tua schiena
Quella strada che porta fino alla bocca tua
Non esiste esperienza più mistica e più terrena
Di ballare abbracciato con te al chiaro di luna
Chiaro Di Luna - Jovanotti
Cambiaste de tiempo y de amor, y de música, y de ideas
Cambiaste de sexo y de Dios, de color y de fronteras
Pero en sí, nada más cambiará
Y un sensual abandono vendrá, y el fin
Viernes, 3AM - Serú Girán
Y la lámpara del cuarto
También tu ausencia ha sentido
Porque su luz no ha querido
Mi noche triste alumbrar
Mi Noche Triste - Carlos Gardel
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Under Pressure - Queen
You, what do you own, the world?
Toxicity - System Of A Down
Aunque me fuercen yo nunca voy a decir
Que todo el tiempo por pasado fue mejor
Mañana es mejor
Cantata de Puentes Amarillos - Pescado Rabioso
Tal vez colmaban la necesidad
Pero hay vacíos que no pueden llenar
Adiós - Gustavo Cerati
Caballero de fina estampa
Un lucero que sonriera bajo un sombrero
No sonriera más hermoso
Ni más luciera, caballero
Fina estampa - Caetano Veloso
Un azote en el alma que te empuja a correr
Un eclipse total de la razón
Así en la Guerra Como en los Celos - Joan Manuel Serrat
In Paterson that's just the way things go
If you're black you might as well not show up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Usted mide alto también
Muy Muy Chico - Juan Wauters
Y además, vos sos el sol
Despacio, también
Podés ser la luna
Bajan - Luis Alberto Spinetta
So when the lights disappear
And only the silence is here
Watch yourself, easy does it
Easy Does It - Supertramp
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From A Doctor’s Visit
And he thought about the devil, in whom he did not believe, and he looked round at the two windows where the fires were gleaming. It seemed to him that out of those crimson eyes the devil himself was looking at him—that unknown force that had created the mutual relation of the strong and the weak, that coarse blunder which one could never correct. The strong must hinder the weak from living— such was the law of Nature; but only in a newspaper article or in a school book was that intelligible and easily accepted. In the hotchpotch which was everyday life, in the tangle of trivialities out of which human relations were woven, it was no longer a law, but a logical absurdity, when the strong and the weak were both equally victims of their mutual relations, unwillingly submitting to some directing force, unknown, standing outside life, apart from man.
...Think about conclusions of economic models…
Courtier
[Baldassare Castiglione](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldassare_Castiglione)
*Il Cortegiano* or [*The Book of the Courtier*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Courtier)
According to the Count, *sprezzatura* is the most important rhetorical device the courtier needs. Peter Burke describes *sprezzatura* in *The Book of the Courtier* as "nonchalance", "careful negligence", and "effortless and ease".[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Courtier#cite_note-10) The ideal courtier is someone who "conceals art, and presents what is done and said as if it was done without effort and virtually without thought" (31).