From a discussion I started on Leonard Cohen's "Bird On A Wire":
Perhaps the most profound bit of lyric ever:
"I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch.
He said to me, 'You must not ask for so much.'
Then a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door.
She cried to me, 'Hey, why not ask for more?'"
A major portion of my own writing is summed up by these few words.
The endless internal struggle between the Stoic and the Romantic,
the reality principle of the ego and the pleasure principle of the id.
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
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Perhaps the most profound bit of lyric ever:
"I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch.
He said to me, 'You must not ask for so much.'
Then a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door.
She cried to me, 'Hey, why not ask for more?'"
A major portion of my own writing is summed up by these few words.
The endless internal struggle between the Stoic and the Romantic,
the reality principle of the ego and the pleasure principle of the id.